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Cikada Prize
The Cikada Prize is a Swedish literary prize for East Asian poets. It was founded in 2004 following the 100th anniversary celebration commemorating of the birth of Swedish Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson. The award consists of a diploma, 30,000 Swedish krona, SEK and a piece of ceramic art designed by the Swedish ceramics artist Gunilla Sundström. The award was initially (the first five prizes) presented in cooperation with the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics, the spa hotel Yasuragi, Judiska Teatern (The Jewish Theater), Östasieninstitutet (East Asia Institute) and Nyteboden. It has been financed by the Swedish Institute since 2013. The name of the prize was inspired by Martinson's poetry collection ''Cikada'', which was published in 1953 (Cikada is Swedish for the insect family Cicadidae). In this collection is also included the first 29 poems of his work ''Aniara'', "The Song about Doris and Mima". The Atomic bombings of Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson (6May 190411February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.Örjan Lindberger "Människan i tiden. Eyvind Johnsons liv och författarskap 1938–1976" Bonniers 1990, pp. 445–447 He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." Life Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden. At a young age he lost both his parents, his father died of tuberculosis in 1910 and a year later his mother emigrated to Portland, Oregon leaving behind her children, whereafter Martinson was placed as a foster child (''Kommunalbarn'') in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Kyeong-nim
Shin Kyeong-nim (Hangul: 신경림) is a South Korean writer who is known as a "poet of the people" Life Shin Kyeong-nim was born on April 6, 1936 in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. When he was young, Shin Kyong-rim frequented the people of Korea's rural villages and collected the traditional songs they sang. Much of his poetry represents a modernization of things he heard then Shin Kyeong-nim graduated in English Literature from Dongguk University, from which time he strove to become a creative writer. In 1955 and 1956, he made his formal literary debut with the publication of poems "Day Moon" (Natdal), "Reeds" (Galdae) and "Statue of Stone" (Seoksang). He taught elementary school in his hometown for a period of time, before moving to Seoul to work as an editor for Hyundae munhak and Donghwa Publishers. But his strong desire to create poetry continued. Work Shin, widely known as a poet of the people, has literally spent decades writing verse on basically one subject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2004
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon () is a South Korean poet. Life Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child. She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk University and began her career as a poet in 1979 with the publication of the poem "Poet Smoking a Cigarette" ("Dambaereul piuneun siin") along with four other of her poems in the literary magazine ''Literature and Intellect'' (''Munhak-kwa Jiseong''). Kim is an important contemporary poet in South Korea, and she lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim was in the forefront of women published in ''Literature and Intellect''. Work Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Her own belief is that her work was recognized at that time in no small part because the 1990s in South Korea were noted for a generally strong wave of women poets and women's poetry. Kim is the recipient of multi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Itō
is one of the most prominent women writers of contemporary Japan, with more than a dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, numerous books of essays, and several major literary prizes to her name. She divides her time between the towns of Encinitas, California and Kumamoto in southern Japan. She is currently teaching at School of Culture, Media and Society in Waseda University, Tokyo. Biography Early career Born in 1955 in Tokyo, Japan, Itō became well known in the 1980s for a series of dramatic collections of poetry that described sexuality, pregnancy, and feminine erotic desire in dramatically direct language. From her earliest work, Itō embarked on a lifelong battle against the stylized and artful language common in 20th-century Japanese poetry. Much of her poetry is narrated in extended passages of relatively colloquial text.Jeffrey Angles, Translator's Introduction, ''Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Itō'' (Notre Dame, IN: Action Books, 2009), p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Xi
Hsi Hsi/Sai Sai/Xi Xi (; 7 October 1937 – 18 December 2022) was the pseudonym of the Hongkongers, Hong Kong author and poet Cheung Yin, "Ellen"/ (). She was born in Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong 1949, at the age of twelve. She was formerly a teacher and had been a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are also popular in Taiwan and mainland China. She had become a rather well-known figure to many secondary school students in Hong Kong. This was due in particular to one of her essays, "Shops" (店鋪), which was adopted as reading material for the Chinese Language paper in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) by the HKEAA, Hong Kong Examinations Authority of the time. In 2019, Hsi Hsi was the recipient of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Childhood Hsi Hsi's ancestors came from Heungshan, Chungshan/Hsiangshan/Heungshan, Kwangtung (now Zhongshan, Guangdong). She was born in Pudong, Putung, Shanghai, where she would go on to attend primary school. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Chuan
Xi Chuan (Chinese language, Chinese: 西川; born 1963), pen name of Liu Jun (Chinese language, Chinese: 刘军), is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is considered one of the most influential and celebrated contemporary Chinese poetry, Chinese poets. His poems have been said to "carry a sense of the world’s plentitude and of the world’s puzzlement." In addition to his poetry, he has published two essay volumes, one book of criticism, a play, and translations of works by Ezra Pound, Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, Borges, and Czesław Miłosz, Miłosz, and others. Xi Chuan was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province and raised in Beijing. He attended a foreign-languages school for diplomats, an unusual opportunity at a time when most schools were closed. At Beijing University, he wrote a senior thesis on Ezra Pound's translations of Chinese poetry, earning an English degree. That's when he adopted his pen name, Xi Chuan (meaning "West Stream"). After college, he worked as a magazine edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mai Văn Phấn
Mai Văn Phấn is a Vietnamese poet, literary critic. Biography Mai Văn Phấn was born 1955 in Ninh Bình, Red River Delta in North Vietnam. He joined the army infantry in 1974. Mai Văn Phấn left the army in 1981 and entered Hanoi College of Foreign Languages, Department of Linguistics and Russian culture. Continued learning in 1983 at Maxim Gorky Pedagogics School, Minsk, (Capital of the Byelorussian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор ...). Notable works He has published 16 poetry books and one book, ''Critiques - Essays'' in Vietnam. 33 of his poetry books and translations are published and released in foreign countries. NATIONALLY PUBLISHED BOOKS: * “Giọt nắng” (“Drops of Sunlight”. Poetry book in Vietnamese. Hải Phòng Writer's Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Mu
Yang Mu ( zh, t=楊牧, p=Yáng Mù, September 6, 1940 – March 13, 2020) was a pen name of Wang Ching-hsien(), a Taiwanese poet, essayist, critic, translator, and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.He is considered one of the most accomplished poets writing in Chinese in the 20th and 21st century, known for his lyricism and linguistic ingenuity, modernising the Chinese diction and syntax while reviving a sublime style out of the idiom and imagery of Chinese and Western poetic traditions. His work was translated into Swedish by Swedish Academy member Göran Malmqvist. He was the first Taiwanese winner of Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (2013) and Cikada Prize (2016). Biography Yang was born as Wang Ching-hsien on 6 September 1940 in Hualien County, Taiwan.When he was 16, only a high school student, he started off publishing his own works in several poetry magazines such as ''Blue Star'', ''Modern Poetry'' and ''Genesis'' un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ý Nhi
Hoàng Thị Ý Nhi (born 1944 in Hội An, Quảng Nam Province) is a Vietnamese poet.Ba Chung Nguyen, Kevin Bowen ''Six Vietnamese poets'' 2002- Page 246 "The Poets: Ý Nhi's given name is Hoàng Thị Ý Nhi. She was born on September 18, 1944. Her home province is Quang Nam. She now lives in Ho Chi Minh City. She has a degree in Vietnamese linguistics and literature from Hanoi University." Biography She grew up in Hanoi. Her father is a well-known playwright Hoang Chau Ky and her husband is professor Nguyen Loc, a former dean of literature department of Hanoi University and the president of Văn Hiến University. Ý Nhi graduated from Hanoi University, where she studied literature in 1968, and lives in Ho Chi Minh City as a branch manager and editor of the Writers Association's publishing group. She was a journalist during the war and is member of the Vietnamese Writer Association. Works Y Nhi has published ten poetry collections, including ''A Woman Knitting'' (New Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bei Dao
Bei Dao (, born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: ''Zhào Zhènkāi''). Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to poetry, he is the author of short fiction, essays, and a memoir. Known as a dissident, he is a prominent representative of a school of poetry known variously in the West as "Misty" or "Obscure" Poetry. Born in Beijing before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Bei Dao served as a member of the Red Guards in his youth. However, disillusioned by the Cultural Revolution, he participated in the 1976 Tiananmen Incident and co-founded an influential literary journal, called ''Jintian'' (''Today''), that came to be officially banned in China. After his poetry and activism were an inspiration to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Bei Dao was banned from China and entered a pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriko Mizuta
is a scholar of comparative literature and a poet. She is the trustee of Jōsai University Educational Corporation in Japan. She was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica prize in 2011 and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (civil division) in 2013. Early life and education Mizuta graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University with a degree in English Literature. She earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in American studies. Career In 1970, Mizuta became an instructor of modern American and British literature and critical theory at Marymount University and Scripps College. In 1974 she became an associate professor at the University of Southern California, teaching comparative literature, American literature, and feminist theory. In 1986 Mizuta was the first director of the new International Education Center at Josai University. She taught as a professor at the university and then served as President from 1994-1996. She served as President of Josai Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
