The Last Fisherman: A Brief Introduction to the Author

Li Hangyu (1957-) is a native of Rushan, Shandong, and Hangzhou, Zhejiang. After graduating from junior high school, I jumped the queue in the countryside and became an auto mechanic. 1977 was admitted to the Chinese Department of Hangzhou University, and 1979 began to publish his works. A national first-class writer, he was a representative writer of the "root-seeking school" who embodied the spirit of Yue culture in the early 1980s. He was elected as the chairman of Hangzhou Writers Association, founded the publication platypus, and is now a professor at the School of Cultural Communication of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

He is the author of novel collection The Roar of White Oak (co-authored with Li Qingxi), The Last Fisherman, The Red-billed Acacia Bird, and the novel Wandering Land, among which The Legacy of Elaeagnus angustifolia won the National Excellent Short Story Award 1983, and Wandering Land was adapted into a movie of the same name.