1982 graduated and went to work in Farmers Daily. 1988 to 199 1, and went to Beijing Normal University and Luxun College of Literature to study for graduate students.
He started writing on 1982. After 1987, a series of units describing urban society were published in People's Literature, such as Tapu, Xinbinglian, Touren, Unit, Officialdom, Yidi Chicken Feather, Guanren, 1942. In these works, he quickly showed his potential ability to be a great writer, established the position of civilians in his creation, and paid attention to issues such as history, power and people's livelihood, but he was also called a "new realism" writer because of his concise and direct painting techniques. "New Realism" writers mainly include Chi Li, Fang Fang, Liu Heng and others. Liu Zhenyun's masterpiece Tapp won the National Excellent Short Story Award1987-1988.
His top, chicken feathers, units, officialdom, officials, etc. Pay attention to the relationship between man and environment. Or the situation of people in the social structure. He described the "unit", a special contemporary social mechanism, and the regulations that this mechanism produced for people. Uncontrollable desires, human weakness and strict social power mechanism constitute an inescapable net in the life world of ordinary people created by Liu Zhenyun. The characters living in it are faced with strong "environmental" pressure and have an unknowable sense of fate; At the same time, in the process of adapting to this living environment, it has experienced the distortion of human nature. For their activities, mutual torture and struggle, as well as their lewdness, selfishness and cruelty, the novel has a calm but profound exposure and criticism. This criticism, in some works, is more powerful in the form of comedy and ridicule. Compared with other "new realistic" novels, Liu Zhenyun's works have more obvious pursuit of "philosophical depth", which means that he constantly exposes the ubiquitous absurdity and alienation of human nature in daily life.
Since 199 1 published the novel "Yellow Flower in Hometown", he began to pursue a new creative realm.
1993, the second feature in the "Hometown" series was published, and the long masterpiece Hometown Noodles and Flowers was completed five or six years later (first edition of Huayi Press 1999). Noodles and Flowers in Hometown embodies his double exploration in style and content. Complexity of structure, diversity of skills, complexity of language, ambiguity of meaning, etc. They are all amazing and have caused some controversy.
In 2007, I published the novel My Name is Liu Yuejin, which was adapted into a movie.
In 2009, the novel "One sentence is worth ten thousand sentences" was published, which caused a sensation.
20 10 On March 7th, Xiaogang Feng expressed his wish to shoot Liu Zhenyun's novel "I am not Pan Jinlian".
20 1 1 In August, "One sentence is worth ten thousand sentences" won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize.