After years of in-depth interviews on the front line, the 71-year-old writer Li Di passed away and completed his last book at the end of his life

The famous writer Li Di passed away at 9:36 on June 29, 2020 due to ineffective medical treatment at the age of 71. In view of the special period of the epidemic, his funeral was simple.

Li Di was born in Beijing on January 29, 1950. In 1970, he published his debut novel "Descendants", which came to prominence in the Yunnan literary scene, was transferred to the People's Literature Publishing House as an editor in 1978, and serialized the novel "Here is the Forest of Terror" in the "People's Liberation Army Daily" in 1980. He joined the China Writers Association in 1984 and is a specially contracted writer of the All-China Public Security Literary Federation and a director of the China Reportage Literature Society. He is the author of more than 40 literary works, including the novella "Distant Penang Village", "The Valley Where Wild Bees Haunt", the novella "Here is the Forest of Terror", "The Drum Sound of the Black Forest", "You Die and I Live", and the long biography "Macao Xie Shuowen". His speculative fiction novel "The Woman Knocking on the Door in the Evening", written in the 1980s, has been published in Russia, France and South Korea, creating a precedent for Chinese speculative fiction to go to the world. His "Listening to Li Di Tell the Story of the Chinese Police" and "Eighteen Stories of eighteen cave villages" have been listed as key publications of national theme publishing, and have won the China Writers Publishing Group Award, the People's Liberation Army Daily Long March Literary and Art Award, the China Reportage Gold Award, and the National Newspaper Supplement Works Selection Gold Award.

Li Di's creative energy is exuberant, and he has been going deep into the front-line interviews and writing in rural areas, oil fields, police barracks, detention centers and other front-line interviews and writing for many years, and he has accumulated fatigue and becomes a disease. His last interview was before the COVID-19 pandemic, when he collapsed like a warrior in front of a lifelong truth story. On the death of his life, two new books, "The Story of Yonghe People" and "Eighteen Stories of Eighteen-Hole Village", which he wrote reflecting the poverty alleviation in rural areas, were published and became his last memorial to readers.

Source: Beijing Daily client| reporter Guan Yiwen

Edit: Guan Yiwen

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