Yawen ZhangZhang Yawen was born in a poverty-stricken remote mountain region of Liaoning province, northeast China in 1944. She had to walk for 10 kilometres each day to get to school, and the Cultural Revolution prevented her from going to college. Her writingcareer began in 1979 with a 3,000-word story that was published in a newspaper. Since then, she has travelled around 10 countries and written more than eight million words, including her autobiography Cry For Life. Her dramatisation of the life of Qian Xiuling, a Chinese woman who saved more than a hundred citizens of Belgium with the help of the country's German military governor, was adapted for television and won the China Writers Association's 'Ordos' Prize for Literary Excellence. The film rights for this book, A Chinese Woman at Gestapo Gunpoint, were purchased in October 2017 for 2,400,000 CNY. Read More Read Less