Today’s Doodle celebrates the life and work of Chinese-born Taiwanese writer and translator Chen Mao Ping, known to her readers as Sanmao. Born in Chongqing, China in 1943, Sanmao moved to Taiwan with her family at a young age.
Sanmao has become a prolific writer and world traveler, whose moving prose, independent spirit and thirst for knowledge have reached millions of people.
Sanmao, as a reader, preferred classic novels such as Don Quixote to school lessons. After taking zero in a math test and being humiliated by a teacher who drew zero around her eyes, she took lessons at home and her teacher named Echo encouraged her love of art and literature.
Sanmao published her first work at the age of 19 before continuing her education studying philosophy in Taiwan. She soon moved to Spain where she met her future husband, José MarÃa Quero. They lived together in the Sahara Desert, during which time she wrote her best-known book, The Stories of the Sahara (1976). Emotional memoirs and travelogues have been translated into many different languages.
Sanmao has published more than 20 books, including a Chinese translation of the Spanish comic book Mafalda. Returning to her native China for the first time since she was a child, Sanmao wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed 1990 film Red Dust.
Her lively prose, her independent spirit and her willingness to travel extensively in search of knowledge inspired many of her readers to follow in her footsteps.
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