Xu Xiaobin is an influential and prolific Chinese woman writer of novels, novellas and essays. Her major works translated into English include Crystal Wedding, Feathered Serpent, Dunhuang Dreams. She has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the inaugural Lu Xun Literature Prize. She is also highly regarded as a painter and is skilled in the folk art of paper engraving. Nicky Harman's translations include Crystal Wedding by Xu Xiaobin, Snow and Shadow by Dorothy Tse (Muse), The Unbearable Dream World of Champa the Driver by Chan Koonchung (Doubleday) and The Book of Sins by Chen Xiwo (Make-Do). In 2011, she was Translator-in-Residence at London's Free Word Centre and she has led the Chinese-English workshop at City University Translation Summer School (2015 and 2016). She tweets as China Fiction Book Club @cfbcuk, and runs the Read Paper Republic weekly short story series.