Liao Yiwu
Biography
Liao Yiwu is a writer, musician, and poet from Sichuan, China.
He is a critic of the Chinese regime, for which he has been imprisoned, and the majority of his writings are banned in China.
Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker and God Is Red.
He has received numerous awards for his work, including the prestigious 2012 Peace Prize awarded by the German Book Trade and the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 2011 for the publication of his memoir in Germany.
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- Gender
- Male
- Place of birth
- Yanting County
- Birth date
- 04 August 1958
- Nationality
- China
- Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
- Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
- In these remote corners, I have discovered a center point, where East met West, and although there has been a collision of cultures, there is now a new Christian identity that is distinctly Chinese. The circuitous mountain path in Yunnan province is red because over many years it has been soaked with blood.
Movies
Fei ya fei
2001
Books
Bullets and Opium
Liao Yiwu
Bullets and Opium
Liao Yiwu
Gott ist rot
Liao Yiwu
El paseante de cadáveres
Liao Yiwu
A masterful ensemble of journalistic narrations that takes readers into the heart of china, this collection of moving and piercing interviews of marginalized individuals inserts readers into the convulsive and terrible recent history of a country within w.
Die Kugel und das Opium
Liao Yiwu
Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder
Liao Yiwu
Die Kugel und das Opium
Liao Yiwu
Für ein Lied und hundert Lieder
Liao Yiwu
God Is Red
Liao Yiwu
In god is red, chinese dissident journalist and poet liao yiwu—once lauded, later imprisoned, and now celebrated author of for a song and a hundred songs and the corpse walker—profiles the extraordinary lives of dozens of chines.
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories
Liao Yiwu
The corpse walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a lepe.
Zhongguo shang fang cun
Liao Yiwu
Fraulein Hallo Und Der Bauernkaiser
Liao Yiwu
The corpse walker is a collection of interviews conducted between 1990 and 2008 that opens a window unlike any other onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, chinese men and women..
