death_date death_place birth_place awards ethnicity notableworks name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
17 november 1992 xi'an , shaanxi qingjian county , yulin , shaanxi , china mao dun literature prize han chinese '' ordinary world '' lu yao 3 december 1949 lu yao
 wang weiguo writer
lu yao

lu yao -lrb- ; 1949 -- 1992 -rrb- , born wang weiguo -lrb- -rrb- , was a chinese writer .
he was born on 3 december 1949 in qingjian county , shaanxi province , and died on 17 november 1992 .
he had six siblings and grew up in a very poor family .
he began writing novels when he was a college student , and graduated from chinese department of yan ` an university in 1973 .
after graduation , he became an editor of yanhe magazine .
in 1982 , lu yao published his novella `` life '' , which was made into a film in 1984 .
it was at this time that he started to become well-known across china .
in 1991 , lu yao finished his most famous work , `` ordinary world '' , which won the mao dun literature prize .
his writing was closely related to his own life and experiences , and focused mostly on young people from his native shanbei striving to change their lives .
