Background
Lulu Wang was born on 22 December 1960 in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher of literature.
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Lulu Wang was born on 22 December 1960 in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher of literature.
At Peking University, Wang studied subjects including English language and literature.
She is a best-selling novelist and also a columnist for Shijie Bolan (World Vision). After graduation, she taught at the university before moving to the Netherlands in 1986, at the age of 26. There she taught Chinese at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Maastricht.
In 1997, she published her semi-autobiographical debut novel, Het Lelietheater ("The Lily Theatre"), which is strewn with Chinese-language proverbs and rhymes translated into Dutch.
In 1997, she was noted to be the best-selling Dutch-language author The novel has been translated from Dutch into several languages, including English.
Her 2010 novel, Wilde rozen is, like her debut, a book based on her life in China. This time, the main character is twelve-year-old Qiangwei, who grows up during the Cultural Revolution.
Wang called it her most personal book yet.
In 2012, she published Nederland, wo ai ni, a book app containing animations, music, and a discussion forum, also available as an e-book lieutenant was later published in a printed version as well. A second book app was published in 2013, Zomervolliefde, a bilingual Dutch and Chinese publication including poems, illustrations, a song, and a short movie.
In addition to being a best-selling author, Wang works as a columnist for the international Chinese-language magazines World Vision (Chinese: 世界博览, pinyin: Shìjiè Bólǎn) and World Affairs (Chinese: 世界知识, pinyin: Shìjiè Zhīshì).