Xiaowen Zeng

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Xiaowen Zeng（Chinese: 曾晓文; pinyin: Zéng Xiǎowén） is a Chinese author living in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Heilongjiang, China, and received a Master's degree in Literature from Nankai University, and a Master of Science from Syracuse University. She lived in the United States for 9 years, and immigrated to Canada in 2003. She currently works as an information systems manager. She is the president of Chinese Pen Society of Canada, and a weekly columnist in the newspaper Sing Tao Daily. She has published a few hundred short stories, pieces of prose, poems, and essays. Her works have been included in a number of literature collections.

Awards

• Literature award from Central Daily News in 1996 for short story “The Netter”.
• United Daily Literature Award for short story "The Spinning Coin" in 2004
• “The love and Mystery of Prague” won third place in World Chinese Travelogue Competition in 2008
• Erduosi Chinese Writers' Literature Award in 2011
• 'Zhongshan Cup' Overseas Chinese Literature Award in 2011

Bibliography

• Shattered Dream in Texas (《梦断得克萨斯》Meng duan Dekesasi), Tianjin Bai Hua Publishing House (2006) [ISBN 7-5306-4360-6]
• The Night Is Still Young, Law Publishing House (2010)

External links

• Zeng Xiaowen’s blog
• Zeng Xiaowen’s Website
• Full text of Shattered Dream in Texas (in Chinese)
• Zeng Xiaowen at York University Reading
• Chinese Pen Society of Canada’s Website
• Chinese Pen Society of Canada’s Blog