Huo Da (Chinese: 霍达/霍達） is a Chinese female writer of the Hui Nationality. She also is a film editor. Her Hui name (Chinese: 经名) is 法图迈. One of her works, The Muslim's Funeral won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.[1] It has been translated into English, French, Arabic and Urdu.
Huo Da was born into a family of scholars on November 26, 1945 in Beijing. She graduated from Beijing Construction College in 1966. And then she engaged in translation work for many years. Meanwhile, she insised on amateur writing. In 1976, she became a film editor of Beijing Film Studio. In 1978, she was transferred into Beijing television art center and started her professional writing career.