李佩甫，男，1953年10月生，河南许昌人，1984年毕业于河南电视大学汉语言文学专业。曾为河南省文联副主席、河南省作家协会主席，现为河南省作家协会名誉主席，中国作协全委会委员。1978年开始发表作品，代表作品有长篇小说《羊的门》《等等灵魂》《生命册》《平原客》等，中篇小说《黑蜻蜓》等，另有电视连续剧、电影剧本等共四百余万字。部分作品被翻译到美国、日本、韩国等。曾获茅盾文学奖、庄重文文学奖、飞天奖等奖项。

　　李佩甫早期的创作多与乡土有关，他将人比喻为“植物”，植物的根深植于土地，人与土地有根深蒂固的关系，因而他善于探求中原的文化底蕴和民心、民性。评论家谢有顺曾这样评价其作品：“李佩甫的小说主题词是权力，而比权力更广大的是人心。他的写作，习惯从中原文化的腹地出发，以都市和乡村、历史与现实互证的方式，书写出当代中国大地上那些破败的人生和残存的信念。他对人心荒凉之后的权力迷信所带来的苦难，有着尖锐、清醒的认识，正如他精微、冷峻的笔法，总是在追问生命丰富的情状如何才能更加健旺地生长。”

　　《羊的门》是使李佩甫享誉文坛的早期代表作，结构宏大，反映了中国近四十年的风云变幻，具有极强的现实冲击力，令人震撼。小说的主人公是呼家堡的当家人呼天成，他是一个“东方乡村教父”式的人物，兼具远大的眼光和灵活的手腕，立足于本村情况，在四十年的时间里，构建了一个从乡到县、从省城到首都的巨大的关系网，将呼家堡的人一个个地送往城市，送往官场。在县长呼国庆的身上也寄寓了深刻的现实意义。《等等灵魂》是一部商场小说，描写了转业军人任秋风接手濒临倒闭的国营商场，在商海中搏杀，凭借出色的经营才能和“商学院三枝花”的帮助，使商场奇迹般重新崛起。然而，成功后的任秋风禁不起权力的诱惑，灵魂渐渐迷失，他的商业帝国也最终倒下。《生命册》出版于2012年。作者以第一人称写了“我”从农村走向城市，在城市打拼的故事，以“我”的经历为圆心，书写了一部五十年间芸芸众生的生命册。“我”从农村走向省城，成为一名大学教师。面对养“我”的老姑夫不时向“我”传来的帮村人办事的难题和爱情的困顿，“我”和大学同学当了北漂后又投入了商海中。不管是大学同学还是无梁村村民，在时代的浪潮中都无力地走向了自己的反面。

　　2017年李佩甫的又一长篇力作——《平原客》出版。该作以豫中平原为故事背景，书写了刘金鼎的成长史和心灵史，以及李德林动荡的一生，可谓写尽平原上的花客与人心。

李佩甫

Li Peifu

　　Li Peifu was born in October 1953 in Xuchang, Henan Province and graduated from Henan Television University in 1984 with a major in Chinese Language and Literature. He was the vice chairman of Henan Wenlian and the chairman of the Henan Writers Association. He is now the Honorary Chairman of the Henan Writers Association and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. In 1978, he began publishing his works with representative novels includingDoor of the Sheepfold, Wait for the Soul, The Book of Life,The Guest on the Plains, and so on, and novellas includingBlack Dragonfly. He has also written more than four million Chinese characters’ worth of TV series and screenplays. Some of his works have been translated and imported into the United States, Japan, South Korea and so on. He has won many awards including the Mao Dun Literature Award, the Zhuang Zhongwen Literary Award, and the Flying Goddess Award.

　　Li Peifu’s early creations were mostly related to the countryside. He likens people to plants. The roots of plants are deeply embedded in the land and people have deep-seated relationships with the land. Therefore, he is good at exploring the cultural heritage, people’s hearts, and people’s nature of the Central Plains. The commentator Xie Youshun commented on his works: “Li Peifu’s novel subjects include power, and people’s hearts, which is much broader than power. His writing often sets off from the hinterlands of the Central Plains culture, with a mutual recognition of the urban and rural areas, history and reality. He writes about the broken lives and remnant beliefs on the land of contemporary China, and he has a sharp and sober understanding of the suffering caused by the superstition of power after the desolation of people. Just as his subtle, cold pen work is always asking questions, he is always questioning how life-enhancing circumstances can grow more vigorously.”

　　Door of the Sheepfold is an early representative work that made Li Peifu famous in the literary world. It has a grand structure and reflects the drastic changes in China’s history over the last 40 years. It has a powerful impact on the real world and is an earth-shattering read. The protagonist of the novel is the head of the Hu family, Hu Tiancheng. He is an “Oriental rural Godfather” type character. He has great vision and flexible skills. Based on his village’s situation, he has built a huge network of relationships in 40 years from the township to the county, and from the provincial capital to the capital. He sends everyone from the Hu family to the cities one by one to official circles. The county chief Hu Guoqing also has a profound practical significance.

　　Wait for the Soul is a novel set in a shopping mall. It depicts the demobilized soldier Ren Qiufeng taking over a state-owned shopping mall on the brink of collapse. He fights hard in the commercial world and with his excellent business abilities and the help of three beautiful women from the business school, the shopping mall miraculously re-builds itself. However, after his success, Ren Qiufeng cannot afford the temptation of power and he gradually loses his soul. His business empire also eventually falls apart.

　　The Book of Life was published in 2012. The author writes the story in the first-person, where “I” go from the countryside into the city to work hard there. With “my” experiences as the central thread, the author writes a book of the life of mortal beings over the course of fifty years. “I” travelled from the countryside to the provincial capital and became a university teacher. Faced with the difficult problems of having the uncle who raised me now and again sending me villagers that needed help handling affairs and the dilemma of love, “my” college classmates and “I” entered the business world after drifting northwards. No matter whether it is a college student or a villager in Wuliang Village, they are powerlessly moving toward their own opposites through the waves of time.

　　In 2017, Li Peifu’s other masterpiece, The Guest on the Plainswas published. The book uses Yuzhong Plain as the background to the story, and depicts the growth and spiritual history of Liu Jinding, as well as the turbulent life of Li Delin. It can be said to have written all there is on flower guests and people’s hearts on the plain.