{"id":1263,"date":"2012-10-09T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:35:49","slug":"yang-mu-wins-newman-prize-for-chinese-literature-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Yang Mu wins Newman Prize for Chinese Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Newman<\/a><\/p>\n

Taiwan-born and -raised poet Yang Mu<\/a> \u694a\u7267 has won the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature<\/a> from the\u00a0University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Yang was nominated by UC Davis professor Michelle Yeh, co-translator with Lawrence R. Smith of Yang’s collection No Trace of the Gardener<\/em><\/a> (another volume, translated by Joseph Allen, was published as Forbidden Games & Video Poems: The Poetry of Lo Ch\u02bbing<\/em><\/a> [\u7f85\u9752]). The other nominees<\/a> were Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87,\u00a0Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc,\u00a0Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, and\u00a0Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, nominated by Jennifer Feeley (U. Iowa, USA), Michel Hockx (U. London SOAS, UK), Wolfgang Kubin (Bonn U., Germany), and Zhang Qinghua \u5f20\u6e05\u534e (BNU, PRC), respectively.<\/p>\n

Rare for contemporary Chinese poetry, all nominated poets have single-author collections available in English translation. Coincidentally, three of the nominees–Hsia, Zhai, and Ouyang–have had their only books in English published by Zephyr Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taiwan-born and -raised poet Yang Mu \u694a\u7267 has won the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature from the\u00a0University of Oklahoma. Yang was nominated by UC Davis professor Michelle Yeh, co-translator with Lawrence R. 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