Xiao Hei (pen name of Zhang Pu) is a Chinese-born British writer and translator based in London. He is the Chinese translator of Jung Chang’s internationally acclaimed Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, one of the most widely read books about modern China. A writer and journalist with a long career in publishing, he has written fiction, non-fiction, essays and political commentary, with a particular interest in China’s history, culture, politics and the complexities of identity.

His novel A Tibetan Girl Called Ata, inspired by a true story and set against the turmoil of Lhasa in 2008, is his first novel to be published in English.