毕飞宇，1964年生于中国江苏。1987年中文系毕业后，历任教师五年，并担任记者六年。目前他身为某杂志编辑和编剧，其中为张艺谋导演的电影 《摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥》编写剧本(1995)。上世纪八十年代末，他开始发表小说。毕飞宇是一位多面手，值得一提的是他的短篇小说，一度荣获声名显赫的鲁 迅文学奖。已被译成荷兰文的小说有《青衣》( 2006)，数篇短篇小说刊登在《文火》杂志上。

Bi Feiyu was born in 1964 in the south-western province of Jiangsu. After completing his studies in literature in 1987 he spent five years as a university teacher and six years as a journalist. He is now a magazine editor and a scriptwriter, who adapted, for example, a novel by Li Xiao for Zhang Yimou’s film Shanghai Triad (1995). Since the late 1980s he has published novels, novellas and short stories. Bi Feiyu is regarded as a highly promising talent, especially in the field of the short story, for which he has won prizes including the prestigious Lu Xun Literature Prize. His work has been translated into several languages. His short novel The Moon Opera was published in 2006 by De Geus and several of his stories have appeared in Het trage vuur, a magazine for Chinese literature.