Duo duo

Duo Duo ( Chinese  多多 , Pinyin Duō Duō ) is the stage name of the Chinese writer Li Shizheng ( Chinese  栗 世 征 , Pinyin Lì Shìzhēng ; * 1951 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ). He currently lives on the island of Hainan in the tropical south of China.

Life

He wrote his first texts as a young man in the early 1970s, secluded and secret during the Cultural Revolution . In many of his early poems he deals critically with the Cultural Revolution in a knowledgeable and original way. Duo Duo is created together with the authors Bei Dao , Gu Cheng , Mang Ke, Haizi and Yang Lian of the literary group Ménglóng Shī 朦胧诗, engl. "Misty Poets" (朦胧诗), German: "Transfigured Poets", also known as Menglong poetry or Hermetic Poetry. There are references to European poetry, e.g. B. to Charles Baudelaire , Marina Zwetajewa and Sylvia Plath . After witnessing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Duo Duo turned his back on his home country for more than a decade and lived in the UK, Canada and the Netherlands. When he returned to China from the Netherlands in 2004, he was honored and celebrated by the young literary world of China. Duo Duo currently lives on the island of Hainan in the tropical south of China and teaches literature there at the University of Hainan. Migration is now a theme in his work.

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Some of his texts have been translated into English. Including the collection "Looking Out from Death: From the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square" (1989) and "The Boy Who Catches Wasps" (2002) as well as a collection of short stories under the title "Snow Plain" (2010).

Awards

In 2010 Duo Duo was awarded the prestigious American Neustadt Literature Prize , endowed with USD 50,000 .

Translations

The American author and sinologist Gregory B. Lee has translated many of Duo Duo's poems into American English and has also written about the work of Duo Duo, most recently in "China's Lost Decade".

Web links

• Literature by and about Duo Duo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Duo Duo in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Article about Duo Duo in Asienspiegel

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Shizheng is the first name.