Xi Chuan 西川 (the pen-name of Liu Jun 刘军) was born in Jiangsu Province in 1963, but raised in Beijing, where he still lives.
A graduate of the English department of Beijing University in 1985, he rose to prominence in the late 1980s for his post-Obscure lyricism, but his style developed towards a more expansive prose-poetry following the death of two poet-friends, one by suicide, in 1989. His avant-garde writing has not prevented him from gaining literary acclaim, as he has won the Modern Chinese Poetry Prize (1994) and the national Lu Xun Prize (2001).
He has traveled widely, including residencies in India, Germany, and the United States, and currently teaches classical Chinese literature at the Central Academy for Fine Arts in Beijing.
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