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Yang Lian was born on 22 February, 1955 in Bern, Switzerland. Discover Yang Lian's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Poet
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 22 February 1955
Birthday 22 February
Birthplace Bern, Switzerland
Nationality Switzerland

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2018

2018, Yang Lian won the first prize for Poetry of “He Ze Du Lin Cup”, Shanghai, China; 2018 Premio International NordSud (2018 NordSud International Prize) for Literature in Italy; 2018 Janus Pannonius International Poetry Grand Prize in Hungary; 2018L’Aquila International Literature Prize. 2017, Yang Lian won the Shanghai Literature Magazine Prize for Poetry; and Narrative Poem, Yang Lian's autographical book-length poem selected as a recommended translation by Poetry book Society in UK, as well as won the English PEN Award. 2016, Yang Lian was awarded The 2016 Pacific International Poetry Prize in Taiwan. 2015, Yang Lian has won The Li Bai Nomination Poetry Prize; Zuo Pin (Works) Magazine's Prize for Sequence; The First Long Poem Prize (Fo Shan City, China); Great Kunlun Cultural Prize․Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry. 2014, Yang Lian has won Capri International Poetry Prize, Italy. 2013, Yang Lian's “Concentric Circles Trilogy” (Yi, Concentric Circles, Narrative Poem) has won first “Tianduo” prize for the long poems; 2012, Yang Lian has won Nonino International Literature Prize in Italy, the juries of the prize were presided by V S Naipaul. Yang Lian was also awarded the Flaiano International Poetry Prize (Italy, 1999) and his Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems (1999) and then Narrative Poem (2017) were Poetry Books Society Recommended Translation (UK). Yang Lian has been elected a board member of PEN International in 2007, and re-elected in 2011.

2013

This edition of Yang Lian's poems and Ai Weiwei's visual images was realized by the publishing house Damocle Edizioni – Venice in 200 numbered copies on Fabriano Paper. The book was printed with the Printing Press at the Stamperia del Tintoretto di Venezia – Venice, May 2018. Every book is hand signed by Yang Lian and Ai Weiwei.

2012

Yang Lian was a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin for 2012 / 2013. he is a guest-professor of Nanjing University of the Arts, The Arts College of Hebei University and Yangzhou University. Since 2014, he was invited to be a distinguished professor and a writer in residency in Shantou University, Guangdong Province, China. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of The Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression. Along with fellow Misty Poets, he has reportedly been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2005

Since 2005 he is professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and artistic director of the Unique Mother Tongue series of international poetry-arts events held periodically in London. Since 2017, he, together with Mang Ke and Tang Xiaodu, republished the online magazine Survivors Poetry [1] as one of two chief editors.

1993

Yang Lian has held writers' fellowships in Australia , United States, Italy and Germany, and has travelled broadly. Although he has retained New Zealand citizenship (1993), and later became a British citizen (2008) too. he has lived in London since 1997, and he lives in Berlin and London now.

1989

Yang Lian was invited to visit Australia by the Australian Arts Council at Aug. 1988, and invited to become a visiting scholar by University of Auckland at Feb, 1989. Yang Lian was in Auckland, New Zealand at the time of the Tiananmen incident, and was involved with protests against the actions of the Chinese government. His work was blacklisted in China shortly after June 4, 1989, and two books of his poetry awaiting publication there were pulped. since then, he became a Chinese poet in exile in New Zealand.

1980

The 'Today' group attracted considerable controversy during the early 1980s, and the initially derogatory term of 'Misty Poets' was applied to them at this time. In 1983, Yang's poem 'Norlang' (the name of a waterfall in Tibet) was criticised as part of the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign, and a warrant was put out for his arrest. He managed to escape after a tip-off from friends; the campaign ended shortly afterwards.

1979

Yang began writing traditional Chinese poetry while working in the countryside, despite this genre of poetry being officially proscribed under the rule of Mao Zedong. In 1979, he became involved with the group of poets writing for 'Today' (Jintian) magazine, and his style of poetry developed into the modernist, experimental style common within that group.

1978

Yang Lian has published fifteen collections of poems, two collections of poetical prose, many essays and one big book of autobiographical prose in Chinese. he has translated all George Orwell's fiction works into Chinese (not published yet because of the censorship in China very recently). His work has also been translated into more than thirty languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and many Eastern European languages. Among 15 books of poems in English translation, his most representative works including the sequences and long poems such as Yi, Where the Sea Stands Still, Concentric Circles, Narrive Poem and Anniversary Snow...etc. they display a profound understanding of, and creative links with, Classical Chinese poetry. His work has been reviewed as "like MacDiarmid meets Rilke with Samurai sword drawn!", "one of the most representative voices of Chinese literature" and "one of the great world poets of our era". Yang Lian and the Scottish poet W. N. Herbert together with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu are the co-editors of Jade Ladder, a brand new Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1978–2008) in English, and published by Bloodaxe Books in Apr, 2012. his latest book in English is The Third Shore, the anthology of Chinese – English poets’ mutual translation (co-editor W N Herbert), published by Shearsman Books (UK), and Eastern Chinese Normal University Press (China), 2013. his latest book-length poem was titled Narrative Poem, an autobiographical poems. All these years, his literary writing, as well as his out spoken voice, has been called as a highly individual voice in world literature, politics and culture. 

1966

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution after 1966. In 1974 he was sent to Changping county near Beijing to undergo 're-education through labor', where he undertook a variety of tasks including digging graves. In 1977, after the Cultural Revolution had ended and Mao Zedong had died, Yang returned to Beijing, where he worked with the state broadcasting service.

1955

Yang Lian (Chinese: 楊煉 Yáng Liàn ; born 22 February 1955) is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school.