Lu Zhuguo

Lu Zhuguo (October 12, 1928 – December 1, 2022) was a Chinese author and screenwriter. He worked for many years at the 1 August Film Studio affiliated with the People's Liberation Army; He became known for his novels about the Korean War and his military-themed screenplays.

He was born in Yiyang County, Henan Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1948 and covered major campaigns of the civil war as a front-line correspondent for the Xinhua News Agency. In 1951, he was appointed editor of the PLA Literature and Art magazine, one of the army's publications.

Literature and cinema

In 1952, during the Korean War, he went to the front and witnessed the Shangganling battles. Based on this experience, he wrote his novel Shangganling; The work became one of the well-known narratives of the war in Chinese literature. In 1958, he moved to 1 August Film Studio and became the studio's deputy director in charge of literary affairs in the following years.

Among the films he wrote are Lei Feng (1964), Shining Red Star (1974) and In the Taihang Mountains (2005). He received the Xia Yan Film Literature Award in 1977. He won the best screenplay award at the 18th Golden Rooster Awards for his film The Great March: Sweeping the Southwest. The China Film Literature Association honored him with a lifetime achievement award in 2005 and the Golden Rooster Awards in 2007.

Lu Zhuguo died in Beijing on December 1, 2022, at the age of 94.