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Han Dong was born in 1961, and graduated in philosophy from Shandong University in 1982. He is a poet, novelist and screenwriter.His chief works include the poetry collections White Stones, Dad’s Looking Down on Me from the Sky, and Becoming a New Person; the short story and novella collections Our Bodies, My Plato, Bright Scars, The Dollar Beats the RMB, and This Moron is Dead; the novels Striking Root, translated as Banished!, Me and You, A Small Town Hero Strides out, Metamorphosis of an Educated Youth, and A Chinese Lover; the screenplays A Touch of Sin, Beijing Days, and I’ll Love You Forever. A bilingual volume of his poems, A Phone Call from Dalian, was published by The Chinese University Press and Zephyr Press in 2012.Han Dong has won the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize, the Chinese Language Media Prize for Novels, the Gao Li Gong Literary Festival Chairman’s Prize, and the Jin Ling Literary Prize. Banished! was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize.