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Sonan Tserang
索南才让

Sonan Tserang, of Mongolian ethnicity, was born in Qinghai in 1985. He is a representative writer of the new generation and vice chairman of the Qinghai Writers Association. He began his literary career in 2007, with his novels published in literary journals such as "Harvest", "October", "Flower City", and "Ethnic Literature," and included in various annual anthologies. His major works include "In the Wasteland" and "Finding Signals". His works have received numerous literary awards, including the Qinghai Provincial Literature and Art Award, the Chinese Youth Writer Award, the Highland Barley Literature Award, the Qinghai Provincial "Five Ones Project" Award, the "Zhongshan" Star Literature Award. In 2021, he was honored with the title of "Morally and Artistically Exemplary Literary and Art Worker" in Qinghai Province. In 2022, he won the Eighth Lu Xun Literary Prize fora novella with his work "In the Wasteland. "This work is set to be published in Spanish by Dedalus Editores under the title "En el páramo."

Works

Wild Colors

Sonan Tserang (索南才让)

Rights Sold: Japanese ★ Lu Xun Literary Prize winner Sonam Tsering's first full-length novel ★ THE METAMORPHOSIS meets THE ODYSSEY on Tibetan pastures. "Sonam Tsering's novel makes us rethink the meaning of land and literature, and it leads us to redefine why humans and life are at the center of the story. This type of writing corrects certain deviations in literary creation." — Yan Lianke, Chinese writer and winner of Franz Kafka Prize in 2014 During a long transhumance in the Tibetan pastures, a rash and arrogant young herdsman named Naren witnessed the birth of a calf. The calf was nicknamed Little Demon due to his pair of ominous, human-like eyes that hinted at his intelligence and ability to think. Deeply grieving for his mother who was mercilessly abandoned for childbirth complications, Little Demon felt profound disappointment in the helplessness of his kind and experienced intense, painful reflections on his identity, fostering a complex and visceral hatred for Naren. Through repeated attempts to escape and recaptures, he gradually understood that the meaning of life is not found in the past but in the present and future. For Naren, the arrival of this calf marked the beginning of a turbulent relationship involving himself, his friend, and a mysterious woman they encountered. The vast land, endless wilderness, loneliness, and insatiable desires followed them like shadows throughout their herding journey. This debut novel of Sonan Tserang, unfolds as a fantastical allegory set on the grassland. Endowed with independent thoughts since its birth, the sensitive and aloof "Little Demon” stood out from the herd. In its naive understanding of the world, it yearns for its own independent "cattle life". The narrative of this work unfolds alternately through the first-person perspectives of both humans and cattle.