#DOTD: Shen Congwen / Shen Ts'ung-wen 沈從文 (middle, 1902–1988), dramatist, novelist, and poet, perhaps the most influential writer in #ModernChina next only to Lu Xun 魯迅. Slated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, he died suddenly before he could be awarded. #ModernChinese