徐则臣
1978年生于江苏东海，毕业于北京大学中文系。著有《北上》《耶路撒冷》《王城如海》《跑步穿过中关村》等。被《南方人物周刊》评为“2015年度中国青年领袖”。《如果大雪封门》获鲁迅文学奖，同名短篇小说集获“2016中国好书”奖。长篇小说《北上》获茅盾文学奖、“2018中国好书”奖。长篇小说《耶路撒冷》获老舍文学奖、华语文学传媒大奖、香港红楼梦奖决审团奖。长篇小说《王城如海》被《亚洲周刊》评为2017年度十大中文小说。部分作品被翻译成英、法、德等近十余种语言。
自荐作品：长篇小说《北上》
《北上》以历史和当下两条线索展开叙事。公元1901年前后，来自意大利的小波罗兄弟带着对于遥远东方运河文明的想象，千里迢迢来到了中国。小说的主人公之一谢平遥作为翻译，陪同小波罗沿着京杭大运河一路北上寻找参加八国联军后失踪的弟弟。2014年前后，他们的后人又演化出了运河边上的一段现代故事。本书阔大开展，气韵沉雄，是一部全方位展现大运河文化的恢弘图卷，书写出了一百年来大运河的精神图谱和一个民族的旧邦新命。
Xu Zechen was born in 1978 in Donghai city, Jiangsu province and graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University. He is the author of Northward, Jerusalem, A Drop in the Royal City and Running through Zhongguancun, to name just a few. He is awarded the “2015 Chinese Youth Leader” by the Nanfang People Weekly. His short story “If a Snowstorm Seals the Door” won the Lu Xun Literature Prize and the short story collection of the same title won the “2016 Good Chinese Books” Award. His novel Northward won him the Mao Dun Literature Award, the top novel prize in China. His novel Jerusalem receives Laoshe Literature Prize, the Chinese Literature Media Award and the Jury Award of the Dream of Red Mansion Award in Hong Kong. His novel A Drop in the Royal City is selected as the “2017 top 10 Chinese novels” by Asia Week. His work has been translated into over 10 languages such as English, French and German.
Work recommended: Northward
Northward narrates with two leads: the past and the present. Around 1901, Polo Junior from Italy travelled to China with his imagination of the canal civilization of the remote Orient. Xie Pingyao, one of the protagonists of the book, accompanied Polo Junior as his translator on the journey northward along the Grand Canal to look for his younger brother, who went missing as a soldier of the Eight Countries Alliance in China. Around 2014, their descendants engage in another story in modern times alongside the canal. The book displays a huge picture of the Grand Canal culture in all-round dimensions. It draws the spiritual map of the Grand Canal in the past a hundred years and tells the new mission of an old nation.
