She won the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award of the Chinese Writers Association multiple times.

Her 1956 fairy tale collection Wild Grape was adapted into a puppet film and translated into several languages.

Ge Cuilin was born in Laoting County, Hebei province, in February 1930 to a Han Chinese family.

[1] Ge started her career in 1942 and was assigned to the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

During her literary career, Ge wrote multiple essays, a novel, fairy tales, poems, plays, and children's literature.

[1] Ge's essay "Where is the Soul" won an award at the Beijing Municipal Celebration of the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of New China.