# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-dawei
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:59.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-dawei"
name: "Li Dawei"
slug: "li-dawei"
description: "Li Dawei is a Chinese writer born in 1963. He began writing poetry at age 17, and in 1985 graduated from Beijing Normal University with a degree in English. Since 1987, he has been publishing theoretical works about art and literature and in 1997, he published his first novel, Dream Collector, which is centred with a young musician and a talking cat that is later converted into a cartoon star. He won Select Short Stories Monthly prize in 1996 and, in 1997, was short-listed for Lu Xun Literary Prize, China's arguably highest award for literature. He was given October Prize in 2000. He currently resides in Los Angeles. He is also a columnist for Caijing Magazine."
tagline: "Chinese writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dawei_(writer)"
    title: "Li Dawei (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "لى داوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dawei"
    title: "Li Dawei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%AB"
    title: "李大卫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dawei"
    title: "Li Dawei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dawei"
    title: "Li Dawei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706383"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump