Books by Ma Jian

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China in 1953. He is the author of Stick out Your Tongue, which in 1987 led to the permanent banning of his books in China; Red Dust, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; four collections of short stories and essays, and eight novels, including Beijing Coma which was described as `the definitive Tiananmen Square novel' and `a true landmark work' of fiction (Boyd Tonkin, Independent). His last novel, The Dark Road, saw him permanently banned from returning to China. He has won the Index on Censorship Book Award and the Athens Prize for Literature, and has been translated into twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London.