{"id":2254,"date":"2013-10-21T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:02:06","slug":"notes-on-the-mosquito-awarded-lucien-stryk-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the Mosquito awarded Lucien Stryk Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2013 Lucien Stryk Prize<\/a> went to Lucas Klein for his translation of the Chinese poetry collection Notes on the Mosquito<\/em> by Xi Chuan. The $5,000 prize, which was established by an anonymous donor, recognizes the best book-length translation into English of Asian poetry or of source texts from Zen Buddhism.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKlein’s volume is the most deserving of the prize by virtue of the quality of many of the translations and the caliber of the poems they represent,\u201d said the Stryk Prize committee. \u201cJudging from this collection, Xi Chuan is clearly a major poetic voice whose formal versatility and relentlessly unswerving insights into the often grim but fascinating here and now of China\u2019s com\u00e9die humaine<\/em> represent a significant contribution to Chinese letters and are well-deserving of a Western readership.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2013 Lucien Stryk Prize went to Lucas Klein for his translation of the Chinese poetry collection Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan. 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