Doing the 'write' thing

Courage, talent and determination help award-winning author to overcome challenges "When I was 8, a doctor predicted that I wouldn't live past 20. But now I'm here, at 29, happy with my life," says Ma Jun, the youngest laureate of this year's Junma Awards for Ethnic Literature in the prose category. His winning piece is his debut prose collection, Qing Bai Shijie, which he wrote under the pen name Liu Kexing. The opening chapter, also titled Qing Bai Shijie, delves into Ma's childhood memories.