YANG LIAN
The JAMES JOYCE FOUNDATION has sponsored the visit to Sydney of Chinese poet Yang Lian to take part in the World Congress of Poets.
You and friends are invited to a celebration of poetry with Yang Lian
VENUE: Sir Hermann Black Room of the University Club in Manning Road at the University of Sydney
TUESDAY 16 October 2001
6.00-7.00 pm and with drinks and snacks at 5.30 pm
YANG LIAN is the 1999 winner of the Flaiano International Literature Prize for Poetry. In winning this award, he is immediately preceded by Seamus Heaney (1995), Yves Bonnefoy (1996), Miroslav Holub (1997), and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1998); and is followed by Derek Walcott in 2000.
Yang Lian began publishing poetry in China in 1979 and established his credentials as a "modernist" poet in the early 1980s.
Yang Lian now lives in London and serves on the advisory boards of both Poetry International Taipei and the Berlin International Literature Festival. He excels as a performance poet and participates in several literary poetry festivals every year. After leaving Sydney he will be taking part in Harborfront Writers' Festival in Toronto. He has also presented lectures on literature at universities in England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and the USA, the most recent being at Harvard University in February 2001.
Yang Lian's most recent poems, essays and theoretical writings have been collected and reprinted in two volumes as Yang Lian zuopin (1998: Shanghai Wenyi Chubanshe, Shanghai), a work amounting to a total of over 1000 pages. His poems have been published in English in single volumes, collections and literary magazines in Australia, USA, Canada, and the UK.
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