Alai (author)
{{short description|Tibetan author (born 1959)}}
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| name = Alai
| native_name = {{lang|zh|阿来}}; {{lang|bo|ཨ་ལེ}}
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| image = 中国作家协会副主席阿来 (cropped).png
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = Barkam, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
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| language = Chinese
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| alma_mater = Normal College
| period = 1982–present
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| notableworks = Red Poppies
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| awards = {{Awards|award=5th Mao Dun Literary Prize |year=2000 |title=Red Poppies }}
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Alai ({{zh|s={{lang|zh|阿来}}|hp=Ālái}}; {{bo|t=ཨ་ལེ་|w=a-le|z=Alê|l=ɑ́lè}}; born 1959 in Sichuan Province) is a Chinese-language poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descent. He is also a former editor of Science Fiction World.{{cite web|title=阿来，一位以藏语构思、汉语写作的作家|last=Shi |first=Shi |website=The New York Times |date=2015-11-02 |accessdate=2016-05-17 |url=http://cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20151102/t02alai/ |language=Chinese |trans-title=Alai, a Chinese novelist with Tibetan ideas}}
Works
Alai's notable novel Red Poppies, published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains, the Maichi, during the decade or so before the “liberation” of Tibet by the People's Liberation Army in 1951. Their feudal life in the Tibetan borderlands, narrated by the youngest "idiot" son, is described as cruel, romantic, and full of intrigue (with the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). Red Poppies won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2000 and was selected as a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize in 2002.
In 2013, Alai participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.{{Cite web |url=https://iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/participants-by-year/2013%20Resident |title=2013 Resident Participants {{!}} The International Writing Program |website=iwp.uiowa.edu |language=en |access-date=2017-04-10}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book|title=The Song of King Gesar |date=December 2013|publisher=Allen & Unwin|location=New South Wales |isbn=9781847672353 |translator= Howard Goldblatt |translator2=Sylvia Li-chun Lin}}
- {{cite book|title= Tibetan Soul: Stories |date=February 2012|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu |isbn= 978-1-937385-08-8 |translator= Karen Gernant |translator2=Chen Zeping}}
- {{Cite book | title=Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet |translator= Howard Goldblatt |translator2= Sylvia Li-chun Lin | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | location=Boston | date=May 2003 | isbn=9780618340699 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/redpoppiesanovel00alai }}
Filmography
- The Climbers (2019)
References
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External links
- [http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/red-poppies-a-novel-of-tibet/ Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet review by Gang Yue from University of North Carolina]
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Category:21st-century Chinese poets
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