Ren Xiaowen is the author of The Life of Miss Zhu San, The Good Man Song Is Useless, Twenty-one Chapters of a Floating Life, On the Balcony, etc. Her works have been translated into Swedish, English, Italian, French, German, Russian, etc. She has won the Mao Dun Literary Newcomer Award, Baihua Literature Award, October Literature Award, Chinese Young Writer Award, Southern People Weekly Youth Power Award, Sina Annual Top Ten Best Books, and Chinese Good Book Award Top Ten Best Books of the year. The novel On the Balcony was adapted into a movie of the same name.