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Wang Jiaxin

Wang Jiaxin

Wang Jiaxin

(China, 1957)
Biografie
Wang Jiaxin 王家新 was born in Danjiangkou, Hubei Province, and was sent to the countryside for labor after high school. When the Cultural Revolution ended he was admitted to Wuhan University in 1978 and later worked as a teacher and editor after graduation. He went to London in 2002 as a visiting scholar and returned to China in 2004. He is currently a professor of literature at Renmin University in Beijing. Regarded as one of the most important post-misty poets, Wang is widely published and also known as an essayist and literary translator. 

In 1992 was Wang Jiaxin  te gast op het Poetry International festival in Rotterdam, waarvan hiernaast opnamen te horen zijn

Link:
Interview met Wang Jiaxin op de University of Oklahoma website.
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Interview with Wang Jiaxin at University of Oklahoma website.
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