Chinese writer Zong Pu, 93, spent over 30 years writing a novel dedicated to National Southwest Associated University. She started to write her epic series "Wild Gourd Overture" at the age of 57, using the university as a setting during the 1930s and the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At 77, she was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize, China's most prestigious literature award, for the second book of the series. In 2019, "Back to the North," the last book of the series, was published, many months after she turned 90.