Liao Yiwu
Autore di The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Sull'Autore
Liao Yiwu is a writer, musician, and poet from Sichuan, China. He is the author of The Corpse Walker, God Is Red, and For a Song and a Hundred Songs, a memoir of the four years he spent in prison after the Tiananmen Square massacre. His work has been published in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, mostra altro Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Sweden. He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2012 and the 2018 Disturbing the Peace Award, given by the Vclav Havel Library Foundation. mostra meno
Opere di Liao Yiwu
God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China (2009) 149 copie
Herr Wang, der Mann, der vor den Panzern stand: Texte aus der chinesischen Wirklichkeit (2019) 3 copie
Bóg jest czerwony : opowieść o tym, jak chrześcijaństwo przetrwało i rozkwitło w komunistycznych Chinach (2014) 1 copia
Massaker. Frühe Gedichte 1 copia
Erinnerung, bleib... 1 copia
Wuhan: A Documentary Novel 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Yìwǔ, Liào
廖亦武 - Altri nomi
- Wei, Lao
- Data di nascita
- 1958-08-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- China
- Luogo di nascita
- Yanting, Sichuan, China
- Luogo di residenza
- Sichuan, China
Yunnan, China - Attività lavorative
- Schriftsteller
Dichter
Musiker - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels (2012)
Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (2011)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 677
- Popolarità
- #37,312
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 21
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 8
This is an oral history of people living in the post-Cultural Revolution China. Obviously the government did not and does not allow this sort of discussion, so the interviews were held in a clandestine way, often inside prisons, and Liao Yiwu was himself imprisoned for his work getting this information out to the world. He now lives in Germany.
I lived in China around the time many of these interviews were conducted, and I was honored that so many people shared their stories with me and my now ex-partner (his Chinese was far superior to my own, so really they were trusting in him more than me, but I was lucky enough to ride shotgun.) The stories here are completely in keeping with what we heard, though they are even more brutal. This information is so important to all of us, to fully see the danger of strongman government, of deifying a leader and closing your eyes to his lies until it is too late, and also to pay respect to those who suffered, and to better understand China as it is today. Liao often shared his opinions in the interviews, telling people they were terrible or guilty, or that their actions or the actions of other were wrong, and that really bothered me. Still, I am so grateful for his immense personal sacrifice to bring these stories to the world, and amplify the voices of people who had so much taken from them.… (altro)