Su Shuyang, a famous writer and playwright, died of illness in Beijing on the evening of July 16 at the age of 81. Su Shuyang's pen names are Shu Yang and Yu Pingfu.
In 1978, Su Shuyang was transferred to beijing film studio as a screenwriter (a national first-class screenwriter), and after 1979, he served as a director of the China Writers Association and vice chairman of the China Filmmakers Association. His drama "Dan Xin Spectrum" won the first prize for the performance and creation of a gift to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and "Left Neighbor and Right House" won the National Outstanding Script Award for Drama, Opera and Opera. His representative works include the movies "Xizhao Street", "Spring Rain Xiaoxiao", "New Dragon Gate Inn", etc., and he is the author of the novel "Homeland", the short story "Wedding Collection", "Revolving Restaurant", "The Death of Lao She" and so on. Su Shuyang's works have been translated into Foreign Languages such as Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Japan, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Italy, as well as Uyghur, Kazakh, Mongolian, Tibetan, Korean, and other domestic minority texts. Among them, the "Chinese Reader", written in the style of Su Shuyang's reading essay, was published in 15 languages and distributed more than 12 million copies in the world, becoming an example of Chinese books "going out". The recent tibetan reader has also been translated into many languages and widely distributed.