Wang Weilian, born in 1982, now lives in Guangzhou. He has successively studied in the Department of physics, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Chinese language of Sun Yat sen University, with a doctor's degree in literature, and concurrently served as the professional tutor of creative writing in the School of Chinese Language and Culture of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of the novel The last human being and The rescued, the story collections "Inner Face", "Illegal Occupancy", "The Sound of Salt Forming", "Life Class", "Upside Down Life", and the collection of essays Sadness without Nomadic. He has won the October Literature Award, Flower City Literature Award, Young Chinese Writer Award and so on. He is known as one of the representatives of Chinese writers born in the 1980s.
