Chinese poet awarded Janus Pannonius Prize

Yang Lian, a Chinese poet who lives in Berlin, was presented the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry at a ceremony in Pécs, southern Hungary, on Saturday.

“Yang Lian has successfully combined the forms of classical Chinese verse with Western avant-garde expressions,”

Tamás Kemény, a poet and member of the international jury for the prize, said in a laudation.

Yang Lian, born in 1955, is associated with the Misty Poets group, who reacted against restrictions of free speech using the tools of poetry.

Géza Szőcs and Yang Lian, photo: MTI

The Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry was established by Géza Szőcs, the president of the Hungarian PEN Club, in 2012. It comes with a 50,000 euro purse.

This year’s prize was presented by state secretary for culture Péter Fekete.

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Photo: MTI

Source: MTI