Chen Yingzhen | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 陳映真 |
| Born | Chen Yongshan (陳永善) 8 November 1937 Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan |
| Died | 22 November 2016 (aged 79) Beijing, China |
| Occupation | author |
| Language | Chinese, English, Japanese |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Alma mater | Cheng Kung Senior High School Tamkang University |
| Period | 1959–2016 |
| Genre | prose, novel |
| Subject | left-wing politics, humanitarianism, Marxism, modernism |
| Literary movement | Taiwan Nativist Literature |
| Spouse |
陳麗娜 (m. 1977) |
Chen Yingzhen (Chinese: 陳映真; 8 November 1937 – 22 November 2016) was a Taiwanese author. Chen is also notable for having served a prison sentence for "subversive activity" between 1968 and 1973. He was active as writer from the late 1950s until his death in 2016.
The Collected Works of Chen Yingzhen is 15 volumes long, and was published in 1988.[1] Some of his stories were also included in Lucien Miller's Exiles at Home.[2]