Member of the International Parliament of Writers
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
 

1949

Bei Dao 北岛, poet and novelist, whose name is Zhao Zhenkai, was born on August 2

in Beijing, China.

His father was a corporate director and his mother was a doctor.

After high school, he joined the Red Guards, then he worked eleven years in the building,

while writing.

1974

He completed his novel Waves, which will be published five years later, in the magazine

Jintian.( Today )

1978 / 1980

He founded with his friend the poet Mang Ke, the magazine Jintian in which the group of

poets, in reaction against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution, nicknamed Misty Poets :

Bei Dao 北岛 , Duo Duo 多多, Gu Cheng 顾城 , Mang Ke 芒克, Shu Ting 舒婷, Yan Liang 杨炼

will publish, until its prohibition.

1979

1989

During theTian'anmen Square protests, he was at a literary conference in Berlin,

and he was no allowed to return in China, because he was accused of inciting revolt

with his poem The Answer. 回答

During his forced exile, he travelled in Norway, in Oslo; in Sweden, in Stockholm;

in Denmark, in Arhus; in Holland in Leyden. he lived three months in France, in Paris.

1993

He went to the United States, in Michigan, and in California, where his wife and his daughter 

2000

22. 03 à 19h30 ( 1h30 ). Cycle "Grande lecture" : Bei Dao. Paroles.

Small room - Pompidou Centre, Paris France.

2006

He was allowed to return to China.

2009

He created the Hong Kong International Poetry Nights and published two books of poetry,

contemporary poets from around the world: The Red Fox Series and In the Mirror Series

2012

2018

Danièle Sicard

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Two collections of poetry were published in French at Circe editions :

Au bord du ciel ( 1995 ) et Paysage au-dessus de zéro ( 2004 ).

Awards selection

The Tucholsky Prize from Swedish PEN

The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award   ( 1990 )

The Golden Wreath Award of the Struga International Poetry Festival ( 2015 )

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