born in 1959, is a Chinese contemporary novelist. His essay series on Tibet Silent is the Other Shore made him one of the representative writers of “new essays”.

Ning Ken, born in 1959, is a Chinese contemporary novelist. His essay series on Tibet Silent is the Other Shore made him one of the representative writers of “new essays”. In 1998, he began to create full-length novels, among which four were published, including A Covered City, A Silent Gate, Craters and Heaven•Tibet. Mercy of a Great Master is his collection of essays. Ning won a number of awards successively, including the second and fourth Lao She Literature Award, the first Shi Nai’an Literature Award, the seventh Beijing Literature & Art Award. He was also nominated for the eighth Mao Dun Literature Prize, the first “A Dream in Red Mansions” Award (Award for Chinese Full-length Novels in the World sponsored by Hong Kong Baptist University), and the first Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.