* 23.01.1973, Mudanjiang, China
lives in: Shanghai, China

Han Bo, born in 1973, works as editor of a magazine in Shanghai and is counted as one of the best young poets in China.

He has published several collections of verse and edited an anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. His poetry is marked by a sober and innovative language which counters the strongly sentimental tradition in China and at the same time builds bridges between classical Chinese verse and the present. His long stream-of-consciousness poems draw readers in like a camera journey and show the influence of his work as a dramatist as well as a poet.
In 2009 he attended the International Writers Workshop in Iowa, his plays have been performed in China and the USA and his poems have earned him awards including the Liu Li'an Prize for Poetry.

Publications

Yizi bu zhidao

[The chairs have no idea, play]
Qunzhong

[The Masses, play]
Shei mei kuashang qiaoqiaoban

[Who has never mounted a saw, play]
Xian gei tufu nü'er de wancan he yi ben hei pi shu

[The butcher’s daughter gets supper and a black leather book]
1994
Weichengnianren jinzhi runei

[Entry for minors forbidden]
2000
Shi nian de biansuqi

[The gearbox of the decade]
1999
Yi huafen er shi de ren

[People who gather pollen for eating]
2001
飛去來寺

[Boomerang Temple]
秀威資訊 [Xiu Wei], 2013

Awards

1998 Liu-Li'an Poetry Price

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