How to Pronounce Li Li (poet and translator)
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Jan 20, 1961 Shanghai, China 63 years old
Chinese writer
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About Li Li Poet And Translator
- Li Li (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Li Lì), born January 20, 1961 in Shanghai, China currently residing in Stockholm, is a poet and literary translator. Li studied Swedish at the University in Beijing and went to Sweden as an exchange student in 1988.
- Following Tiananmen Square Massacre in June, 1989, he decided to stay in Sweden.
- The same year he debuted with a collection of poetry in Swedish "Blick i vattnet".
- In China he is an acclaimed poet as well as translator of Swedish poetry to Chinese.
- For his work, he has received many literary distinctions, including recently Yinchuan Poetry Prize for his translations of Tranströmer into Chinese.
- In 2009, he received the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize for his collection Ursprunget.
