Yu Jian

Yu Jian (;), born 1954, is a Chinese poet, writer and documentary film director. He is a major figure among ‘The Third Generation Poets’ that came after the Misty Poetry movement of the early 1980s. His work has been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, and Japanese.Jacket Magazine, 2006 http://jacketmagazine.com/29/yujian-padgett.html

Biography

Born in Kunming, China, on August 8, 1954, Yu Jian's schooling was interrupted in 1966 by the Cultural Revolution. He became a factory worker in 1969, where frequent power failures enabled him to read voraciously. He started writing poetry (free verse) at the age of twenty. He studied in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, at Yunnan University, and was a literary activist, organising events and editing publications. His career as a published poet took off when his poem "6 Shangyi Street" was published in China's leading poetry journal ''Shikan'' in 1986. He published a controversial long poem ''File Zero'' in 1994, then a collection of travel sketches and impressions of daily life ''Notes from the Human World'' in 1999, and another long poem ''Flight'' in 2000.Words Without Borders https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/yu-jian/

Honours and awards

* 2010 - "Home", poem, in cooperation with Zhu Xiaoyang won Taiwan's 14th United Daily News New Poetry Prize (2010), Taiwan's Genesis Poetry Magazine Prize and the Lu Xun Literary Prize.
* 2003 - "Turquoise Bus Stop", documentary, was considered for the 2003 Amsterdam International Documentary Filmmaking Festival's Silver Wolf AwardHome (2010).
* The German edition of Yu Jian's poetry collection ''File Zero'' won the German Association for the Promotion of Asia, African and Latin American Literature's “World Experiences” Prize.

Selected Publications - translated into English

* "16", "50", "63", "84", "The Last Summer Storm", tr. George O’Connell and Diana Shi, in ''Atlanta Review'' xiv, 2 (Spring/Summer 2008).
* "A Beethoven Chronology" ��多芬纪年 tr. Steve Bradbury, in ''Words without Borders'' (Dec. 2011).
* "Immanuel Kant", tr. Steve Bradbury, in ''Words without Borders'' (Dec. 2011).
* "File 0", tr. Maghiel van Crevel, in ''Renditions'' 56 (2001).
* ''Flash Cards'', tr. by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett (St. Paul, MN: Zephyr Press, 2011)
* "Four Poems", tr. Simon Patton, in ''Renditions'' 46 (1996).
* "Poems" in Wang Ping, ed., ''New Generation: Poems from China Today'' (Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1999).
* "Short Pieces (Selections)", tr. Nicholas Kaldis, in ''Dirty Goat'' 24 (2011).
* "Small Town", tr. Simon Patton, in ''Chinese Literature Today'' 3, 1/2 (2013).
* "Two Poems" Fat man with a kind face…" and "Crows in black robes" tr. John Crespi, in ''basalt'' 2, 1 (2007).
* "Two or Three Things from the Past", tr. Wang Ping and Ron Padgett, in ''Words Without Borders'' (Dec. 2004).

References

Selected Documentary Films

* "Turquoise Bus Stop" (2003) was considered for the 2003 Amsterdam International Documentary Filmmaking Festival's Silver Wolf Award

External links

Yu Jian on Paper Republic

Yu Jian on MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Yu Jian on Poetry International

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1954 births
Yunnan University alumni
People's Republic of China poets
People's Republic of China essayists
Living people
People from Kunming
Film directors from Yunnan
Poets from Yunnan