{"id":4472,"date":"2019-02-27T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2019-02-25T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T02:59:36","slug":"xi-chuan-wins-swedens-cikada-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4472","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan wins Sweden’s Cikada Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Cikada Prize 2018 is awarded to the Chinese poet Xi Chuan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 2004 to commemorate the 100th birthday of Swedish poet and Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, the Cikada Prize is given to East Asian poets whose work \u201cdefend the inviolability of life.\u201d They write: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s winner is Xi Chuan<\/em> (official name Liu Jun), poet, essayist, translator, born in the city of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, in 1963. Xi Chuan<\/em> studied English literature at Beijing University from 1981 to 1985, and was a visiting scholar to the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa in 2002, and Orion Scholar to the University of Victoria, Canada in 2009. He is currently teaching Classical Chinese Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.<\/p>

The prize was handed out during a prize ceremony in Beijing, arranged in close cooperation with the Swedish Embassy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Click here <\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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