She has received the People’s Literature Award, the Chinese Writers Award, the Biennial Chinese Literary Award, the Zhuang Zhong Wen Literary Award, the Xiao Shuo Xuan Kan Readers’ Choice Award, the Fiction Monthly Hundred Flowers Award, and the 2007 Young Chinese Writers Award, in addition to being named one of the “Top Twenty Future Masters” by People’s Literature and one of Taiwan-based Unitas Magazine’s “20 Under 40” top sinophone writers. In 2009, she won China’s foremost literary award, the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Dinner at Six was published in Nicky Harman and Helen Wang’s English translation in 2022, and This Love Could Not be Delivered appeared in English translation in 2016. Her short stories, including “Paradise Temple,” “Hidden Diseases,” “Xie Bomao R.I.P.,” “A Second Pregnancy, 1980,” “The Banquet,” and “The Past of Xu’s Duck,” have been translated into German, French, Japanese, Russian, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Korean. She lives in Beijing.