Gender: male
Date of birth: 1935
Ancestral home: Wuhu, Anhui
Title: Contemporary famous poet, translator and critic.
Features: The works are fresh and ethereal, full of modern consciousness.
Liu Zhanqiu is a famous contemporary poet. His novels are based on expressing emotions, facing life directly, transcending time and space and being free and unrestrained. As early as the mid-1980s, he was praised as "the king of lyric poetry" by a generation of college students.
Russian-born Liu Zhanqiu was the editor-in-chief of Beijing Poetry magazine in 1980s. In the field of poetry, Poetry Magazine was once called the national magazine, and as the editor-in-chief, it became a leader in the field of poetry. Liu Zhanqiu's collection of poems Untitled Lyrics won the National Literature Award (now Lu Xun Literature Award).
Extended data
Major works-
1, Poems
There are 22 kinds of poems, such as Joy of Life, Untitled Lyrics, People, Love and Scenery, Prose Poems, Remote Guitar, Essays and Melody of Lyrics. Some works have been translated into English, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Yugoslav, Bulgarian and other foreign languages.
2. Translation
Translated Selected Lyrics of Pushkin and Selected Lyrics of Ye Saining, edited China Dictionary of Poetics, Treasures of Russian Literary Masterpieces, Collected Works of Tagore, Chekhov's Novels, PTV (Poetry TV), Romance, etc.
Work style-
Liu Zhanqiu's prose has an idyllic beauty, which is praised as the representative of modern mountain literature by literary circles at home and abroad. The 80 essays selected in this collection vividly show the author's pastoral mentality beyond time and space. Whether he writes about emotions, life, cities, culture, travel and economy, he uses his unique aesthetic style to talk to readers in a pure language and relaxed way, revealing sincere happiness and subtle worries.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Zhanqiu