Yu Guangzhong was born in Nanjing in 1928. His ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. My mother is originally from Wujin, Jiangsu Province, so she also calls herself a "Jiangnan native".
Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literatures of National Taiwan University in 1952. In 1959, he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa (LOWA) in the United States. He has taught at Soochow University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University, and National Chengchi University. During this period, he was twice invited by the U.S. State Department to serve as a visiting professor at many universities in the United States. In 1972, he served as professor and director of the Department of Spanish at Chengchi University. From 1974 to 1985, he served as Director of the Chinese Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1985 to present, he serves as professor and chair professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung City. Among them, he served concurrently as the dean of the School of Liberal Arts and the director of the Institute of Foreign Languages ??for six years.
Yu Guangzhong has been engaged in poetry, prose, commentary, and translation all his life, and calls himself the "fourth dimension" of his writing. He has been in the literary world for more than half a century, covering a wide range of topics, and is known as an "artistic polygamist." His literary career is long, vast and profound. He is a master of contemporary poetry, an important prose writer, a famous critic and an excellent translator. So far, 21 collections of poetry, 11 collections of essays, 5 collections of commentaries, 13 collections of translations, and more than 40 collections of literature have been published.
Yu Guangzhong’s poetry creation and translation works have been published by 15 publishing houses in mainland China, including Beijing People’s Daily Publishing House, Guangzhou Huacheng Publishing House, Changchun Times Literature and Art Publishing House, and Anwei Education Publishing House. Mr. Yu is also a senior editor and has edited important poetry publications such as "Blue Star", "Wenxing", and "Modern Literature". In the name of "Chief Editor", he edited ***15 volumes of Taiwan's "Modern Chinese Literature Series" from 1970 to 1989 (novel volumes, prose volumes, poetry volumes, drama volumes, and commentary volumes).
Yu Guangzhong enjoys a high reputation in the literary circles in Taiwan, overseas and mainland China. He has won all important awards in Taiwan, including the "Wu Sanlian Literature Award", "China Times Award", "Golden Tripod Award", "National Literature and Art Award", etc. He has traveled to Europe and the United States many times to attend international PEN and other literary conferences and deliver speeches. He also came to the motherland many times to give lectures. For example, in 1992, he was invited by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to give a lecture on "Gong Zizhen and Shelley"; in 1997, Changchun Times Literature and Art Publishing House published seven volumes of his poetry and prose anthology. He was invited to Changchun, Shenyang, Harbin, Dalian, and Beijing to give lectures on Reader signature. Jilin University and Northeastern University awarded the title of visiting professor. His famous poem "Nostalgia" was recited and performed at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. "Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong" is included in "People's Literature Publishing House and Beijing Book Catalog". In recent years, CCTV's "Reading Time", "Son of the East" and other columns have continuously recommended and reported on Mr. Yu Guangzhong to domestic audiences, which has had a great impact.
There are approximately one thousand reviews of Yu Guangzhong’s works at home and abroad. Books on Yu Guangzhong include "Phoenix Bathed in Fire" and "Brilliant Colorful Brush" edited by Huang Yaoliang and published by Taiwan Pure Literature Publishing House and Jiuge Publishing House respectively; "One Hundred Poems of Yu Guangzhong" published by Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House 》 (Selected Explanations of Liushahe) and other 5 kinds. The biography is published by Taiwan's Tianxia Vision Publishing Company and is written by Fu Mengjun, "Children of Cornus officinalis - The Biography of Yu Guangzhong". His poetry collection "Legends of Lotus" was translated into German and published by German scholars in 1971. Many other poems and essays have been translated into foreign languages ??and published overseas.
Mr. Yu Guangzhong loves traditional Chinese culture and China. Praise "China, the most beautiful and motherly country". He said: "The upper reaches of blue ink is the Miluo River", "I want to be the descendant of Qu Yuan and Li Bai", "There is a tributary of the Yellow River in my bloodline". He is an outstanding poet and essayist in the Chinese literary world, and he is still in "tug of war with eternity." Breathing is today, but it has entered history, and his name has been prominently engraved in the annals of Chinese new literature.
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·Give Art Two Hours·April, on the Ancient Battlefield·Winter in the Southern Hemisphere
·Is immortality a pile of stubborn rocks? ·Summer in Western Europe·Bridge Across the Golden City
·Ghost Rain·Memory as Long as a Railroad·Tiger and Rose
·Study·Book Catastrophe·On Early Death·The Realm of Borrowing Money
·Four types of friends·The realm of humor·Three study rooms
·Stage and podium·If I had nine lives·Your ears are particularly valuable?
·Cut off the braids of prose
Shi Tiesheng (1951—), a native of Beijing. After graduating from junior high school, he went to Yan'an area in northern Shaanxi in 1969 to "jump in the queue". Three years later, he returned to Beijing due to paralysis of his legs and worked in a factory in Beixinqiao Street. Later, his condition worsened and he returned home to recuperate. Started publishing works in 1979.
Some early novels, such as "Half Hour for Lunch", have the characteristics of exposing the "dark side" of literature. "My Distant Qingping Bay", published in 1983, was not only Shi Tiesheng's, but also an important work in novel creation at that time. It has been interpreted on multiple levels: it may be said that it expands the horizons of "educated youth literature", or it may be said to be of significance in the "root search" of literature. On the issue of "seeking roots", the author expresses this opinion, "'roots' and 'seeking roots' are two completely different things. One is just where we come from and why we come. The other is also for: us Where to go and how to go." Regarding the latter, he believed that "this is to see the absurdity of life and to find a reliable basis for the spirit" ("Sunday·History", Huaxia Publishing House, 1983 edition).
Shi Tiesheng's personal experience of physical disability led some of his novels to write about the life and mental difficulties of the disabled. But he transcended the disabled's pity and self-pity for their fate, and raised his concern for universal survival, especially the phenomenon of mental "disability". Unlike other novelists, he is not obsessed with the perceptual life characteristics of a nation or region. He regards writing as a narrative and exploration of his personal spiritual journey. "The universe refines a song and dance into eternity with its endless desire. What kind of name this desire has in the world can be ignored" (Shi Tiesheng, "Me and the Temple of Earth"). This constant concern for the survival of "disabled people" (in Shi Tiesheng's view, all people are disabled and defective) gives his novels a strong philosophical meaning. Due to his personal experience, his narrative runs through a kind of tender yet fatalistic sentimentality; but it also contains a struggle against absurdity and fate. "Life is Like a Piano String" is a fable about fighting against absurdity to obtain the meaning of existence.
He is the author of the novel "Notes on Retreat", the short story "Life is Like a Piano String", the essay "Me and the Temple of Earth", etc.
"My Distant Qingping Bay" and "Grandma's Star" won the National Outstanding Short Story Award in 1982 and 1983 respectively, and "Notes on an Old House" won the first Lu Xun Literature Award.
About the writer:
Mo Yan, formerly known as Guan Moye, is one of the most dynamic writers of the new generation in China. Since the mid-1980s, he has emerged with a series of local works. Although he was classified as a "root-seeking" writer in his early days, his writing style is known for his boldness, and his novels are always full of offensive language. For example, in the famous work "Red Sorghum Family", the constant bloody scenes are full of strong emotional accusations, but between the "feces and urine" scenes, it is actually a history of modern revolution. The vast and wild sorghum field in the story is also described as a vast and dazzling space where history, tradition, and urban and rural areas are intertwined.
After experiencing the writing peak of "Red Sorghum", Mo Yan continued to seek breakthroughs and created a large number of short and medium-sized works and several important novels such as "Wine Country" and "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks" etc., many novel collections such as "Red Ears" and "The Legend of Mo Yan" have also been released in Taiwan.
Since he spent most of his childhood in rural areas, Mo Yan said that he has always been deeply influenced by folk stories or legends. The scenery and objects in his hometown of Gaomi are the source of inspiration for his creations. The ghost stories circulated in the countryside when he was a child have also become the material of many absurd novels by Mo Yan. The mysterious South American magical realism appears in "The Thirteen Steps", describing a person's "transformation" and using gorgeous language to bring out waves of mystery. "Wine Country" uses romantic descriptions to depict the story of a place rich in famous wines. "Mangrove" realizes the time and space transformation of the novel's subject matter and the exploration and update of creative methods, which is a great transcendence of itself.
No matter whether the story is dazzling, absurd, or spooky, Mo Yan's rich imagination and surging rhetoric can always amaze people - just like Zhang Dachun in "Red" In the preface of "Ear", he said: "There are thousands of words to say, but there are so many words to say"!
Mo Yan's profile
Born in Gaomi, Shandong Province in February 1955, he studied in his hometown primary school during his childhood. He later dropped out of school due to the Cultural Revolution and worked in rural areas for many years.
Joined the People's Liberation Army in 1976 and served successively as squad leader, security guard, librarian, teacher, and officer.
Started his creative career in 1981. So far, he has published novels such as "The Red Sorghum Family" and "The Song of Garlic Moss in Paradise", as well as collections of short and medium stories such as "Transparent Carrot" and "Explosion". There are also five volumes of "Collected Works of Mo Yan".
Graduated from the Literature Department of the People's Liberation Army Art Institute in 1986
In 1991, graduated from the postgraduate creative class of the Lu Xun Institute of Literature at Beijing Normal University and received a master's degree in literature and art
1997 In 2007, he won the "Everyone Literature Award", the highest amount in China's history, for his novel "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks", receiving a bonus of up to 100,000 yuan.
In 1997, he left the military and transferred to a local newspaper " Worked for the Procuratorate Daily and wrote a series script for the newspaper’s film and television department