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Liao Yiwu

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Chinese musician and writer

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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of China's Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned in 1990.

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2012Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
2011Geschwister-Scholl-Preis

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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of China's Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned in 1990. His books, several of which are collections of interviews with ordinary people from the lower rungs of Chinese society, were published in Taiwan and Hong Kong but are banned in mainland China; some have been translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Polish and Czech. He has been living in Germany since April 2011.

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China
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1958 · age 68
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19 languages

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