Yan Lianke was born in Luoyang in 1958. In 1978, he joined the army instead of college. His first short story was published in 1979. He won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2014. The books published in Turkey include Lenin's Kisses (Final Kültür, 2012) and The Explosion Chronicles, (Can, 2013) and The Years, Months, Days (Jaguar Kitap, 2017).