| Zhang Wei | |
| Native Name: | 张炜 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Longkou, Shandong, China |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Alma Mater: | Shandong Normal University |
| Period: | 1982 - present |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Notableworks: | The Ancient Ship |
Zhang Wei (; born 7 November 1956) is a Chinese author. He was born in Longkou, Yantai, which is located in the north of the Shandong Peninsula. He graduated from the Chinese Department at Yantai Normal College in 1980. Three years later, he became a member of China Writers Association, an organization for which he has served as chairman and deputy chairman of the Shandong branch. He is best known for his novels The Ancient Ship and September's Fable. In 2011 Zhang won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the highest national literary award, for On the Plateau, a 10-volume work that took a decade to write.[1] [2]
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