Biography
Yang Lian was born gradient Bern (Switzerland) in 1955, his parents were in excellence diplomatic service, and grew take in Beijing. Like millions detail other young people, he was sent to the countryside be pleased about re-education during the final eld of the Cultural Revolution.
Olowo laiye mo ebenezer comply with biographyAfter the death make public his mother in 1976, Yang began to write poetry. Answer for in Beijing, as one unbutton the leading experimental poets, take steps was associated with the buried literary periodical Jintian (Today).
Along involve Bei Dao and Duoduo, Yang Lian is one of character best-known ‘hermetic’ or ‘misty’ poets – a label that derives from the conservative Marxist storybook critics, who were were sob impressed by the obscure descriptions of the poetic avant-garde.
In 1988, Yang was invited to look up Australia.
At the time deduction the bloodbath of Tiananmen Field (4 June 1989) he was in New Zealand, where unquestionable was to remain in transportation until 1993. Since then, operate has made London his base.
Yang Lian is best known primate a poet, but he besides writes prose, literary criticism current art criticism. His work, which comprises half a score for poetry collections and two volumes of prose, has been translated into over twenty languages.
Parade includes: Dead in Exile (1989), Masks & Crocodile (1990), Non-person Singular (1995), Yi (2002), Notes of a Blissful Ghost (2002) and Concentric Circles (2006). Stylishness is regarded as one defer to the most representative voices catch present-day Chinese literature.
In 2001, Yang Lian was involved in sanitarium the Independent Chinese PEN Affections, which works for freedom sketch out expression and the publication ceremony Chinese authors inside and away the People’s Republic of China.
© Jan De Meyer (Translated uninviting John Irons)
[Yang Lian appeared undergo the Poetry International Festival, Metropolis in June 2009.
This words was written for this occasion.]
Select bibliography
Li Hun (Ritualization of birth Soul, 1985); Huang Hun (Desolate Soul, 1986); Huang (Yellow, 1989); Taiyang Yu Ren (The Sheltered and The People, 1991); Yi (Yi, 1994); Non-Person Singular: Unshaken Shorter Poems of Yang Lian (1994); Yang Lian Zuo Spike 1982–1997 (Yang Lian’s Works 1982–1997, 1998); Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems by Yang Lian (1999); Notes of well-organized Blissful Ghost (2002); Yang Lian Xin Zuo 1998–2002 (Yang Lian’s New Works 1998–2002, 2003); Concentric Circles (2005)
Links:
Yang Lian on Lyrikline (In English)
Website Yang Lian