Li Li (), born January 20, 1961, in

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, China, currently residing in Stockholm, is a

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and

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. Li studied Swedish at the University in

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and went to Sweden as an exchange student in 1988. Following

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in June, 1989, he decided to stay in Sweden. The same year he debuted with a collection of poetry in Swedish "Blick i vattnet". In China he is an acclaimed poet as well as translator of Swedish poetry to

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. For his work, he has received many literary distinctions, including recently Yinchuan Poetry Prize for his translations of Tranströmer into Chinese. In 2009, he received the

Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize The Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris is a Swedish literature prize given by the newspaper ''Svenska Dagbladet'' annually since 1944. Prize winners References

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for his collection ''Ursprunget''.

Poetry

*Sömnlös (with Illustrations by Qiu Dali), 1988 (Shih-mien) *Blick i vattnet: dikter, 1989 *Tidens tyngd: dikter, 1990 *Att fly: dikter, 1994 *Retur: dikter, 1995 *En plats som är du: dikter, 1999 *Ursprunget, 2007

Translations

''To Chinese from Swedish:'' *Yiwang de guitu (Den motsträviga skapelsen by

Kjell Espmark Kjell Erik Espmark (19 February 1930 – 18 September 2022) was a Swedish writer, literary historian, member of the Swedish Academy, and Professor of the History of Literature at Stockholm University. He was elected to the Swedish Academy on 5 Ma ...

), 1991 *Telangsiteluomu shi quanji (Samlade dikter by

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...

), 2001 * ''To Swedish from Chinese:'' *En tunga ska växa ut : ny kinesisk dikt, i översättning av Li Li och Göran Sommardal, 2007

Notes

External links

San Francisco International Poetry Festival page about Li Li
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