Mother River

•CONTINUED SUCCESS: Between Yale University Press, New Directions, and Open Letter, Can Xue has been published consistently for over twenty years, cultivating a rabid fan base.

•NOBEL ASPIRATIONS: Always near the top of the betting odds list, 2024 may well be her year as a counterbalance to 2023's winner, Jon Fosse.

•OTHER AWARDS: Winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2015 for The Last Lover, and finalist for the 2015 Neustadt Prize.