Duo Duo
Duo Duo Đa đa | |
|---|---|
| Born | Li Shizheng 1951 (age 72–73) Beijing,PRC |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | Misty Poets |
| Notable works | Looking Out From Death,The Boy Who Catches Wasps |
| Notable awards | Neustadt International Prize for Literature |
Duo Duoor Duoduo (Chinese:Đa đa,born 1951) is the pen name of contemporaryChinesepoet,Li Shizheng ( lật thế chinh ), a prominent exponent of the ChineseMisty Poets( mông lung thi ).[1]Duo Duo was awarded the 2010Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Biography
[edit]Duo Duo was born inBeijing,China.As a youth in theCultural Revolution,he was sent down to the countryside inBaiyangdian( bạch dương điến ), where he began reading and writing poetry. Several of his schoolmates would also become famous as members of the underground poetry movement described as "Misty" by the authorities:Bei Dao,Gu ChengandMang Ke.
Duo Duo's early poems are short and elliptical, in which some see barbed political references. In his early poems, there are numerous intertextual links to Western poets such asCharles Baudelaire,Marina TsvetaevaandSylvia Plath.His style underwent a shift in the mid-1980s to longer, more philosophical poetry. In contrast to the clipped, image-based style ofBei Dao,Duo Duo tended to use longer, more flowing lines, and paid more attention to sound and rhetoric. Some of his poems border on the essayistic, such as the 1984Lessonsalso translated asInstruction( hối giáo ), which spoke for China's "lost generation" as much as Bei Dao'sAnswer.
In 1989, Duo Duo having been witness to theTiananmen Square protests of 1989,as fortune had it was booked on a plane on 4 June toLondonwhere he was due to give a poetry reading at theBritish Museum.He went on to live for many years in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands. His poetic language went through another shift, taking up the themes of exile and rootlessness. In the absence of a Chinese-speaking community, Duo Duo began to use theChinese languagemore self-consciously. Sometimes his poems border on the impenetrable yet are highly effective, such as the poemWatching the Sea( khán hải ).
In 2004, Duo Duo returned to China and began to teach atHainan University.
Awards
[edit]In 2009, a jury representing nine countries selected Duo Duo as the 2010 winner of the $50,000Neustadt International Prize for Literature,making him the award's 21st laureate and the first Chinese author to win the prize.[2][3]He is also associated with many respected Chinese literary festivals and awards, such asYinchuan Poetry Prizeand others.
Translations
[edit]The author and academicGregory B. Leehas translated many of Duo Duo's poems into English, and has written about the poet's work, most recently in his bookChina's Lost Decade.[4][5]
Jin Zhong kim trọng ( Jone Guo, USA) was also one of the earliest translators of Duo Duo's poetry. A good selection of the translations was published by American Poetry Review in 1993, which became a milestone for Chinese poetry published in this magazine.
References
[edit]- ^"A Brief Guide to Misty Poets".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-04-12.Retrieved2013-09-25.
- ^Staff writer(October 29, 2009)."Chinese poet awarded Neustadt Prize at OU".Norman Transcript.Archived fromthe originalon November 4, 2013.RetrievedNovember 2,2013.
- ^"2010 Neustadt Laureate Duo Duo".World Literature Today.March 2011.RetrievedNovember 2,2013.
- ^"Home".tigredepapier.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-11-01.Retrieved2022-08-08.
- ^The Boy Who Catches Wasps: Selected Poetry of Duo Duo.May 2002.
External links
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- Gregory B. Lee's homepage- translated Duo Duo's poems
