Wang Menghan | |
Native Name: | 王梦菡 |
Pseudonym: | Tau Tau |
Birth Place: | Harbin, Heilongjiang, China |
Language: | Chinese, English, Italian, German |
Wang Menghan, also known as Tau Tau, is an author and filmmaker.[1] She was born in Harbin and grew up in Shanghai. She lived in North Africa for many years and now lives in Berlin.[1]
At the age of 16, she published her first novel, The Ivory Fairytale, based on her life in Shanghai No. 3 girls’ high school.[1] This book was later adapted for the screen and won the national award of Chinese Central Ministry of Culture for TV film and radio drama script.[2] She wrote columns for periodicals such as Der Bund and Shanghai Times. In 2005, she published collections of column articles, Qing Ren Di Tu and Ye Ren Bu Luo .[3] Her novel Foxy was published in 2008, and Shake Shake, North Africa in 2011.[1]
In 2015 she wrote and directed the short film Angry Fruits Hotel. In 2016, she produced the Germany-China co-production feature film Open Wound, which won 21 international film awards including a best producer award in 2017 at Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festiva.[4] Her feature debut movie NO ZUO NO DIE, written and directed by herself, started filming in Hessen, Germany.