Zou Jingzhi is highly regarded in China as a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright

He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe. As a screenwriter, the films he wrote for Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar Wai have been well received at film festivals across the world. His plays and operas have been performed in China as well as internationally, and his poems and essays have been very influential, going into multiple reprints.

Zou Jingzhi’s novel Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on March 14 2023. 

Zou Jingzhi

All nominated books

Ninth Building