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Li Xintian (Chinese: 李心田; pinyin: Lǐ Xīntián; January 1929 – 3 July 2019) was a Chinese novelist best known for his novels The Sparkling Red Star and Two Little Fighters.

Biography

Li was born in Suining County, Jiangsu Province, in January 1929. He started to publish works in 1953. His first stage play, Little Eagle, was published in 1961. That same year, his novellas Two Little Fighters was published. This was made into a phenomenally successful film in 1978. After graduating from East China Military and Political University, he joined the People's Liberation Army, becoming a civilian cadre in Jinan Military Region. His most influential work The Sparkling Red Star was published in 1970, and was adapted into a successful film. In 1979 he joined the China Writers Association. He died in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province, on July 3, 2019.

Works

Novel

• Dreaming for 3000 years
• Thirty Years of Marriage
• Bridge in Dream
• A Pulsating Flame
• Ten Self-portraits

Novellas

• Two Little Fighters
• The Sparkling Red Star
• Blue Star on the Roof

Screenplay

• Sparkling Red Star (1974)

References

1. 《闪闪的红星》作者李心田逝世 [Li Xintian, writer of The Sparkling Red Star, is dead]. ynet.com (in Chinese). 6 July 2019.
2. 作家李心田逝世享年91岁 [Writer Li Xintian dies aged 91]. 163.com (in Chinese). 5 July 2019.
3. 《跳动的火焰》 [A Pulsating Flame] (in Chinese). Shijiazhuang, Hebei: Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House. 2012. ISBN 9787551100267.
4. 《两个小八路》 [Two Little Fighters] (in Chinese). Beijing: Beijing Union Press. 2018. ISBN 9787559620644.
5. 《闪闪的红星》 [The Sparkling Red Star] (in Chinese). Jiangsu: Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House. 2018. ISBN 9787559418425.
6. 《屋顶上的蓝星》 [Blue Star on the Roof] (in Chinese). Wuhan, Hubei: Hubei Children's Publishing House. 2011. ISBN 9787535360434.

• 1929 births
• Writers from Xuzhou
• 2019 deaths
• 20th-century Chinese novelists
• Chinese children's writers