Readers will get the chance to attend a meet-and-greet with Su at the China Cultural Centre on Friday 23 May, the book club said.

On Monday, he was guest of honour at a roundtable discussion with sinologists and film professionals at the Urania National Film Theatre as part of its Chinese film week.

That event in Budapest featured a screening of the 1995 film Blush, an adaptation of Su’s 1991 novella Petulia’s Rouge Tin. The film is about the experience of two women during China's campaign to "re-educate" prostitutes to become contributing members of society.

Su was born in 1963 in Suzhou. He published his first works in 1983, before rising to national fame with his novels in 1987. He has since become a worldwide bestselling author and one of China’s most translated contemporary novelists.

His 2009 novel The Boat to Redemption earned him the Man Asian Literary Prize, and in 2011 he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, which writes:

"Su Tong is known for his controversial writing style. He has written seven full-length novels and over 200 short stories, some of which have been translated into English, German, Italian and French.

He is best known in the West for his book Wives and Concubines (1990), which was adapted into the film, Raise the Red Lantern by director Zhang Yimou. The book has since been published under the name given to the film.

His other works available in English translation are Rice, My Life as Emperor, Binu and the Great Wall (tr. Howard Goldblatt), Madwoman on the Bridge and Other Stories, Tattoo: Three Novellas and The Boat to Redemption, also translated by Goldblatt."

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