Ling Zhang (Chinese: 张翎; born in 1957) is a former senior audiologist and fiction writer in Toronto, Canada.
In 2009, Zhang's novella, Aftershock (2010 film), a tale about the survival of the horrific 1976 Tangshan earthquake, was made into China's first IMAX movie, directed by Feng Xiaogang.
[4] In 2011, a lawsuit was launched against Zhang Ling for alleged copyright infringement from works by three Canadian writers.
A Single Swallow, the English version of Zhang's novel《劳燕》, listed on 2017 Sina best ten books list/2017 新浪年度十大好书,[5] published by Amazon Crossing in October 2020, has immediately caught the media and readers' interest[6] and was reviewed as “a literary work suffused with prodigious and descriptive exposition.”[7][8] A Single Swallow became Amazon's #1 Kindle bestseller in Chinese literature and WWII historical fiction.
The novel also was the winner of AudioFile Earphones Award [9] and was listed with The New York Times Globetrotting 2021.