Zhou Keqin (Chinese: 周克芹; pinyin: Zhōu Kèqín; 1937 – August 5, 1990) was a Chinese writer regarded as a representative of Scar literature.
[1] Born in Jianyang, Sichuan, he is famous in China for the 1979 novel Xu Mao and His Daughters, which was made into a movie in 1981 and which also won him the first-time Mao Dun Literature Prize, a prestigious literary award.
Zhou graduated from Chengdu Agricultural Technology School in 1958 and then became a farmer in his hometown.
In 1979, he completed the novel Xu Mao and His Daughters, about 200,000 characters in length, which, in realistic style, depicted the life of a farmer's family in a desolate village and reflected the impacts of many rural policies on the family.
Zhou became a renowned writer nationwide in China for this novel and he was considered one of the leading figures in Scar Literature.