Ge started her career in 1942 and was assigned to the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. She was a writer-in-residence with the Beijing Writers Association and wrote scripts for the Beijing Puppet Theater troupe. During her literary career, Ge wrote multiple essays, a novel, fairy tales, poems, plays, and children's literature. She started publishing in 1949 and used the pen name Yinglin (婴林).[1]
Ge is most well known for her 1956 fairy tale collection Wild Grape. Many of the fairy tales in the collection were based on Northern Chinese folklore and legends.[2] The collection was translated into Japanese, English, German, Russian, and French. It was also adapted into a puppet film that won the Youth TV Program Award at the Munich TV Festival in 1986.[1][3] The Chinese Writers Association awarded her the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award for her fairy tales Walnut Mountain, Puppet Somersaulting, Wild Grape, and Portrait of Singing.[1]
Ge's essay "Where is the Soul" won an award at the Beijing Municipal Celebration of the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of New China. She co-founded the Bing Xin Children's Literature Award with Han Suyin and Bing Xin in 1990. At the 50th anniversary of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, she was awarded the Literary and Artistic Creation Contribution Award.[1] Cuilin continued publishing works well into the 2000s. Her essay collection Eighteen Beautiful Dreams was published in 2000.[2]
^ abcdefg"儿童文学作家葛翠琳去世,享年92岁|界面新闻 · 快讯" ["Children's literature writer Ge Cuilin dies at 92"]. Jiemian News (in Chinese). 27 December 2022. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
^ ab"作家葛翠琳辞世:她是大家心中的"儿童文学祖母" ["Writer Ge Cuilin died: the "grandmother of children's literature" in everyone's mind"]. The Paper (in Chinese). 28 December 2022. Archived from the original on 3 September 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
^"葛翠琳 (1930~)" (in Chinese). Chinese Writers Association Member Dictionary. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018.