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| Chen Minghua | |||||||
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| 陈明华 | |||||||
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| Born | December 1950 (age 74) Wuqingyuan, Zhengning, Gansu, China | ||||||
| Occupation(s) | poet, essayist, translator | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陳明華 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈明华 | ||||||
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Chen Minghua (simplified Chinese: 陈明华; traditional Chinese: 陳明華; pinyin: Chén Mínghuá; born 1950), also known as Chen Mo, is a Chinese poet, essayist and translator. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman of the Qingyang Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of Beidou Magazine. In 1974, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography
Chen was born on 1950 in Wuqingyuan, a small town in Zhengning County, Gansu. After graduating from high school in 1970, he joined the army, became a member of the Chinese Communist Party and served as an engineer for four years, during which time he began to study poetry. Since the age of 20, Chen loved literature and have a special liking for art of poetry.
Chen began publishing his works in 1970. In 1973, his debut collection I Stand Guard on National Day Night was published in Shaanxi Province's "Hanzhong Daily". He has published nearly a thousand poems in domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines such as "Mass Literature and Art", "Baoji Literature and Art" and the military newspaper "People's Army Daily". He has published many poetry collections, including Five-Colored Flowers, Huiyang Season, Listening to Hometown and Wind Blowing in the Western Regions.
In 1975, he retired from the army ad returned to his hometown. After working in the countryside, he kept writing poems. Soon, he was hired as a cadre by Zhengning County Cultural Center. During this period, in addition to devoting himself to the creation of local poems, he also began to write political lyric poems. He created a large number of passionate political lyric poems, which were published in "Gansu Daily" and "Gansu Literature and Art", and were selected into relevant books published by People's Literature Publishing House.
In 1980, Chen's collection Memories of the Motherland won the third prize in the first Gansu Province Excellent Literature Award. In 1983, he won the Feitian Literature Award for My Family on the Plateau, and in 1986, the essay Dreams of Three Dangerous Mountains won the Excellence Award in the "Ideal and Pioneering" Essay Competition organized by Gansu People's Broadcasting Station. In 1994, he won the first prize of the "Insurance Cup" National Poetry Competition.
His poems have been included in the national middle school students' general Chinese textbook. His poetic style has transformed from cold beauty to tranquil beauty, and has penetrated from the countryside to the frontier. He has a huge influence on the formation and development of the Qingyang poetry scene and is a famous contemporary poet.
In 2000, "Xueluohuan County North" won the third prize of Gansu Province's Dunhuang Literature and Art Award and won the third "Five One Project Award" in Qinyang. He has won the Qingyang City "Five One Project" Award many times, and served as the director of the jury of the first to sixth sessions of the Qingyang Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, the poems Maojing, Hui'an Fort and Snow in Ejina were selected by "Selected Chinese Poetry in 2000", "Best Chinese Poetry in 2000" and "Selected Chinese Poetry in 2001" respectively.
Awards and honours
- 1974: Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1980: Gansu Province Excellent Literature Award
- 1994: "Insurance Cup" National Poetry Prize
- 2000: Dunhuang Literature and Art Award
Publications
- I Stand Guard on National Day Night
- Memories of the Motherland
- My Family on the Plateau
- Dreams of Three Dangerous Mountains
- Huiyang Season
- Spring Blossoms
- Snow Falling Around the North of the County
- Neighboring with Shuofang
- Walking around Shuofang
- West Wind Blowing Snow
- Wind Blowing Qinghai
- Five-Colored Flowers
- Returning to the Sun
- Listening to Hometown
- Wind Blowing in the Western Regions
References
- ^ "Qingyang Poet". ytshn43.com (in Chinese). 30 March 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Nobelarkivet–1974" (PDF). svenskaakademien (in Swedish). January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- "陈默". baike.sogou (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "陈默". baike.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- "Chen Mo". 24shi.cc (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Gansu Poets Map - Qingyang Poetry Group". blog.sina.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
