Qiu Xiaolong China/United States

Bio
The latest novel in Qiu Xiaolong’s award-winning Inspector Chen series, The Mao Case, was released in March 2009. Translated into 20 languages with over a million copies of his books sold, he has also published poetry translations and a poetry collection. His collection of linked stories, Years of Red Dust, was serialised in a French daily evening newspaper Le Monde in 2008. Born in Shanghai, Xiaolong worked as an associate research professor at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences before going to the United States as a Ford Foundation Fellow in the late 1980s. He obtained his PhD in comparative literature at Washington University and now lives in St Louis in the US.



What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I would like to snuggle under covers with a poetry collection of T. S. Eliot. For me, for Inspector Chen, as for Eliot, 'But perhaps neither gain nor loss. / For us, there’s only the trying. The rest is not our business.' "

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