Yan Lianke talks about his writing life and issues around the censorship of literature in China. Yan’s novel The Explosion Chronicles (Chatto & Windus, 2017), translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas, is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
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