曹文轩,1954年生于江苏省盐城农村。1974年入北京大学中文系读书,现为北京大学中文系教授和现当代文学博士生导师。中国作家协会全国委员会委员,北京作家协会副主席,中国少年写作的积极倡导者、推动者。主要作品有《山羊不吃天堂草》、《草房子》、《细米》、《青铜葵花》等。 Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954 in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. He joined Peking University Department of Chinese Studies in 1974 and is now a professor of Chinese Department of Peking University and a doctoral supervisor in modern and contemporary literature. Member of Chinese Writers Association National Committee, vice chairman of Beijing Writers Association, an active advocate and promoter of Chinese youth writing. The main works are “goats do not eat paradise grass”, “grass house”, “fine rice”, “bronze sunflower” and so on.