Xiaowen Zeng
Xiaowen Zeng.
Native name	曾晓文
Born	Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China
Occupation	Writer screenwriter translator
Language	Chinese, English
Citizenship	Canada
Alma mater	Nankai University Syracuse University
Period	1991–present
Genre	Novel, novella, short story, screenplay, prose
Notable works	Shattered Dreams in Texas
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	曾曉文
Simplified Chinese	曾晓文
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zēng Xiǎowén

Xiaowen Zeng (Chinese: 曾晓文; pinyin: Zēng Xiǎowén) is a Chinese-Canadian author living in Toronto, Canada.

Biography

Xiaowen Zeng was born in Jiamusi in the Heilongjiang of China. She received a Master of Arts in Literature from Nankai University, and a Master of Science in IT from Syracuse University. She lived in the United States for 9 years, and immigrated to Canada in 2003.

Xiaowen has worked in the IT field for more than 20 years including as System Analyst, IT Manager, Sr. Director of IT in Canada, the U.S. and China. She has published a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

Community activities include:

• Vice Chair and Chair of the Chinese Pen Society of Canada from 2004 to 2012
• Co-organized the First Chinese Canadian International Literature Symposium in 2011
• Presented at a number of Oversea Chinese Literature conferences in China
• Interviewed by CCTV (China) in 2006 and 2014; by OMNI Television in 2010, 2014 and 2018; by Fairchild TV in 2009 and 2018; and by a number of TV/radio stations, journals and newspaper in China, Canada and the US
• Presentations of readings and lectures at Toronto Public Library, at schools including Harvard University, the University of Toronto, York University, Western University in Canada, and Jinan University, Zhejiang University, People's University, Nankai University, and Tianjin Normal University in China

Selected works

Awards

• 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for "Wildflower of the Labour Camp"
• Overseas Chinese Writing Award for A Double Petaled Woman (《重瓣女人花》in 2019
• The Great Bay Area Cyber Literature Award for in 2019
• LinGuo Best Creativity Award for TV script in 2019
• Overseas Chinese Writing Award for The Woman Born a Leaf (《属树叶的女子》in 2018
• Top 10 novellas of 2017 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for Gold Dust (《金尘》)
  

  Xiaowen receiving the top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014
• Top prize in the First Global Chinese Prose Competition, 2014, for Carrying the Soul Back Home (《背灵魂回家》)
• The Chinese Writers Erdos Literature Award (2011)
• Zhongshan Overseas Literature Award (2011)
• 2011 Best TV Script Award sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and television
• Top 10 short stories of 2009 as ranked by the China Fiction Association, for The Kilt and Clover (《苏格兰短裙和三叶草》)
• United Daily News Literature Prize, 2004
• Central Daily News literature Prize, 1996

External links

• Wildflower of the Labour Camp by Zeng Xiaowen
• Zeng Xiaowen’s Weibo
• Zeng Xiaowen's ebooks at Amazon
• Zeng Xiaowen at York University Reading
• ECT presents a lecture by Ms. Xiaowen Zeng