Author · China
Tie Ning
Tie Ning was born in September 1957, in Beijing according to Paper Republic, in Zhao district, in Hebei, according to The Paper; her father is Tie Yang. After leaving a secondary school in Baoding in 1975, she went to live for four years in the Hebei countryside and began publishing the same year. Back in Baoding in 1979, she worked there as an editor. Elected on 12 November 2006 to head the China Writers Association, the third to hold that post after Mao Dun and Ba Jin, she also sits on the central committee of the Communist Party.