1972 went to middle school in Shanghai, began to write, and began to publish juvenile exercises in Shanghai Teenagers. Mainly girls' novels.
1978, studying in the Chinese Department of East China Normal University in Shanghai.
1982 graduated from the Chinese Department of East China Normal University with a bachelor's degree in literature. The graduation thesis is "Research on Western Children's Fantasy Literature: Jumping Life into Fairy Tales: New Trends of Modern Western Fairy Tales", which won the National Excellent Paper Award for Children's Literature. In the same year, he served as the novel editor of Childhood, and began to write novels and essays, engaged in the translation of English children's literature.
1983 began to publish works.
1984, the first essay "China Girl" was published in Shanghai Youth Literature and Art, and won the Shanghai Young Writers' Works Award, the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award, and the Excellent Children's Literature Award of the Chinese Writers Association. The first novel "When someone encounters misfortune" was published in Shanghai Youth Daily and won the Children's Literature Award in Chen Bochui.
1986 published the novel Lock the Drawer, and published the first collection of short stories of juvenile literature, The Girl. In the same year, I interviewed a Shanghai middle school girl who committed suicide, and wrote the first novella The Death of a Middle School Girl, which was published in China Writers magazine.
1987, join the Chinese Writers Association.
1988 published the first novella collection trilogy for middle school girls, and won the gold medal for recommended reading by Shanghai teenagers.
1990, the first novella "Beautiful Winter" with the theme of adult life was published, and literary creation with the theme of urban life began. In the same year, The Black Pearl (Scott odell) was translated and published.
199 1 year, the Japanese version of The Death of a Middle School Girl was published by Wu Mi Bookstore in Japan and visited Japan. The Japanese version of The Death of a Middle School Girl has been reprinted for 7 times, and was selected as the best 100 world children's literature works in the 20th century by the Japan Children's Literature Association. Sankei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun are well received. In the same year, Taiwan Province Ye Qiang Publishing House published the traditional Chinese version of Trilogy for Female Middle School Students, and reprinted it six times. He wrote and published the first novel quiet inside with the theme of urban life.
From 65438 to 0992, he went to the German International Youth Library as a visiting scholar, recommended China's books to the Bologna International Book Fair, and gave a lecture on China's only child literature. In the same year, he wrote the novel A Girl. He also wrote and published a series of interviews with European life and European intellectuals.
In June of the same year, 5438+065438+ 10, a youth program "Twelve Colors Rainbow" was launched on Shanghai Oriental Radio Station, and a special Christmas program was raised to raise money. A 12 color aseptic laminar flow room was established in the children's leukemia area of Shanghai Pediatric Hospital, which has been used to rescue children with leukemia ever since. The program won the second prize of Shanghai Municipal Government News Award and the first prize of China News Award.
1993, traveled all over Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Russia, interviewed along the way, and sent back reports for Oriental Radio.
1995, a German translation of Nine Sounds by a girl was published in Switzerland. A few weeks later, it was selected as the best children's book by Deutsche Welle Radio. Frankfurter allgemeine zeitung and Zurich Daily were well received.
From 65438 to 0996, nine students won the Austrian National Youth Reading Gold Award, the German National Youth Reading Silver Award and the German Youth Judge's Golden Bookworm Award. Published a collection of essays "Hometown of Spirit" (co-authored with Chen Baoping).
1997, nine students won the UNESCO Global Youth Literature Award for advocating tolerance, and the Berlin Municipal Government of Germany won a special prize for understanding foreign cultures 1997. Published the Declaration of the Only Child, won the China Population and Culture Award, and planned five episodes of the TV documentary "Only Child", which was completed in cooperation with the documentary editing room of Shanghai TV Station.
1998 published the collection of essays "Shanghai Legend", which won the national bestseller award and distributed160,000 copies. The German version of Nine Students is published by Fisher Publishing House in Germany.
1998, My Mom is an Elf was published, which is the author's novel in the field of children's literature in China, and was rated as "the best children's fantasy novel in China so far" by the book review of Wen Wei Po. It has won unanimous praise from domestic children's literature theorists and is regarded as a major breakthrough in the artistic style of China's children's literature works. 20 1 1 This book was selected as the national primary school students' basic reading bibliography.
From 65438 to 0999, the biographical novel Shanghai Golden Branches and Jade Leaves was published140,000 copies. The novel "A Girl" was published by Taiwan Province Minsheng Daily in traditional Chinese. In the same year, it won the Best Children's Book Award of China Times 1999, the Best Children's Book Award of United Daily News 1999 and the Literature Gold Award of "Advocating Tolerance" of UNESCO. The Japanese version of the One-Child Declaration was published in Japan, and the Asahi Shimbun and NHK Asia column reported the release of the new book.
In 2000, the biographical novel The Beautiful Heritage of Shanghai was published with a circulation of 60,000 copies. Published a series of European travel essays "Where to Go Tonight" and "Is Coffee Bitter?
200 1 Published the essay "Shanghai Salad". Attended the Berlin International Literature Festival as a representative of China writers. The novel My Mom is an Elf won the Taiwan Province Book Award of the Year.
In 2002, he published a series of articles about traveling in Europe, and did what he did, and there were still encounters. Shanghai's Golden Branches and Jade Leaves won the top ten best book awards in China jointly selected by Banyan Tree website, Weekend Pictorial and Philip Company.
In 2009, the short story Snow was selected into the 2008 China Novel List of the Chinese Fiction Society.
20 10 prose "Tanchun Juyuan Middle School" won the China Best Prose Award in 2009.
On April 3 rd, 20 14, Chen and the host gave a lecture entitled "Seeing through the scenery, a writer is traveling" and talked about my new book on travel philosophy. This series is the first book in the 12 series of Chen tourism literature planned by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House.