[CW-Grad] UCR Creative Writing: a conversation with Liao Yiwu, a distinguished Chinese poet and writer (Oct 5)

[Andrew Winer]

Dear All,

 

Please join me in a conversation with one of the most prominent and
outspoken contemporary writers in China today.  Liao Yiwu was imprisoned for
four years for composing his epic poem, "Massacre," a condemnation of the
government's crackdown at Tiananmen Square.  His last book, The Corpse
Walker, remains banned in China.  His writing is filled with a deep sense of
humanity-the everyday and the timeless.  Hope to see you at this special
noon event on Wednesday, October 5.

 

Warmly,

Andrew

 

UCR Departments of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature

Present a conversation with



 

Liao Yiwu, a distinguished Chinese poet and writer of literary non-fiction,
specializes in evoking the lives and feelings of people "at the bottom" in
Chinese society--farmers, bricklayers, school teachers, shamens, lepers, and
others.  His work is banned in China, but circulates there online, and is
available in English in The Corpse Walker (Pantheon, 2008) and God is Red
(HarperCollins, 2011).   

 

After some short readings from these works, Liao, who does not speak
English, will answer questions from Professor Andrew Winer, Department of
Creative Writing, with interpretation by Professor Perry Link, Department of
Comparative Literature.

 

OCTOBER 5  Wednesday noon - 1pm

CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South 

Symposium Room INTS 1113

Free and open to the public

 

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