Lan Lan

Lan Lan began publishing at age 14. Her many poetry volumes, prose poems, essays, criticism, and collections for children have established her as one of contemporary China’s most prominent authors. Lan Lan’s foreign language collections include the bilingual Chinese / English Canyon in the Body, as well as those in Russian, Thai, and Spanish. Her awards include the Poetry and People International Poetry Prize, the Yuan Kejia Poetry Award, the Chinese Media Literature Prize, and the Su Shi Poetry Award. She has been named an honorary citizen of Chios and Oinousses, Homer’s Greek Birthplace.