Nandu reporter learned that the famous writer Ye Yonglie died in Shanghai Changhai Hospital on the morning of May 15 at the age of 80.
Ye Yonglie was born on August 30, 1940 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, and graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University in 1963. Famous novelist, historian, reportage writer, engaged in the creation of popular science fiction in his early years, pen names Xiao Yong, Jiu Yuan, Ye Yang, Ye Boat, etc., with novels and documentary literature as the main creative content, he was a member of the Chinese Science Association, a standing director of the China Science Popularization Creation Association, and a director of the World Science Fiction Association.
Famous writer Ye Yonglie
Ye Yonglie began publishing poetry at the age of 11 and his first scientific sketch at the age of 18. In 1960, at the age of 20, Ye Yonglie became the main author of "100,000 Whys", and in 1961, he completed "PHS Roaming the Future", and then devoted himself to popular science creation, with remarkable achievements.
In the spring of 1976, Ye Yonglie, then a screenwriter at the Shanghai Film Studio, published his first science fiction novel "Petroleum Protein" in the late decade of turmoil, marking the second climax of Chinese science fiction in mainland China. In 1981, Ye Yonglie's film "Under the Traffic Lights" won the Best Science and Education Film Award at the 3rd Hundred Flowers Film Awards. After 1983, Ye Yonglie began to shift from the creation of popular science and science fiction works to the creation of documentary literature, and wrote "1978: The Great Turning Point of China's Destiny", "The Complete Biography of Chen Yun", "Ye Yonglie's Interview Notes", "Chinese under the Star Stripe" and so on. Since 2015, Ye Yonglie has shifted from documentary literature to the creation of long urban novels, and after three years of hard work, he has completed the 1.35 million-word "Shanghai Trilogy" ("Oriental Wall Street", "Strait Tenderness", "Encounter Beauty").
As of January 2018, Ye Yonglie has published more than 35 million words. He made a numerical summary of his own creations: "Some time ago I sorted out my popular science works, called "Ye Yonglie's Complete Collection of Popular Science", which has 28 volumes and 14 million words; my documentary literary works are 15 million words; and there are also walking literature, "Ye Yonglie Looks at the World" 21 books, which have now all been published, 5 million words."
In an interview before his death, Ye Yonglie said: "Others think that there are two Ye Yonglie, one is Ye Yonglie, who wrote "100,000 Whys" and "PHS Roams the Future", and the other is Ye Yonglie, who wrote the 'Red Trilogy' and "The Rise and Fall of the Gang of Four". "The media always says I'm a science fiction writer. But I stopped writing science fiction and popular science works many years ago. ”
He devoted a great deal of effort to documentary writing and published a series of works of great weight. He said: "I have two wings in writing, one wing is the library, the archive, and the other wing is the interview, a large number of interviews with the parties. My writing is 'contemporary people write contemporary history', the parties in major historical events are still alive, interviews and documents are combined, so that the works written have their real historical value. ”