Cheng Ch'ing-wen (Chinese: 鄭清文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chheng-bûn; 16 September 1932 – 4 November 2017) was a Taiwanese writer and a graduate of National Taiwan University.
A collection of twelve of his short stories, Three-Legged Horse, was made available in English in 1998, and won the 1999 Kiriyama Prize for fiction.
Encouraged by the then-editor Lin Hai-yin, he continued to publish works and released short stories such as Dustpan Valley (簸箕谷) and Gorge Landscape (峽地).
His writing style was primarily influenced by Ernest Hemingway’s "iceberg theory",[5] favoring simple structures and plain narrative language to conceal profound meanings within his works.
Most of Cheng Ching-Wen's short stories depict the constraints and reactions of individuals in the face of societal and temporal changes, illuminated through the perspective of inner lives.