Zhai Yongming 翟永明 has just won Italy’s Piero Bigongiari del Ceppo di Pistoia prize for 2012. Follow the link or click the image above for the press release in Italian, with a quotation from Zhai explaining her relationship to Chinese classical and modern poetry.

For my review of Andrea Lingenfelter‘s translation of Zhai’s work in Changing Room (Zephyr Press), click here.