Jidi Majia

Jidi Majia (in simplified and traditional Chinese: 吉狄马加, pinyin: Jídí mǎjiā) is an eminent poet and current lieutenant governor of Qinghai province.^[1] He was born in 1961 and belongs to an ethnic minority of China, the Yi. He has published numerous poetic^[2] anthologies since the 1980s and has won national literature awards, is also considered one of the greatest poets of minorities in China. He is the President of the China Minority Literary Association and Permanent Vice-President of the China Poets' Association.^[3]

He was mentored by the poet Ai Qing and gained national attention when his collection Song of Love won the Third China National Poetry Prize in 1986.^[4] His work has been translated into many languages,^[5][6][7] and he has been awarded numerous international prizes, including the Sholokhov Memorial Medal for Literature in 2006 from the Russian Writers’ Association, and a Certificate for Outstanding Contributions in Poetry from the Bulgarian Writers’ Association that same year.

His book of poems My First Love won the National Poetry Prize of China. The Dream of a Yi native won the fourth Literary Prize of China Minorities for poetry. He is currently president of the Qinghai International Poetry Festival, which succeeds on the shores of Asia's largest lake, the Lake of the Gods, at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and has also participated in the International Poetry Festival of Medellín.^[8] In 2016 he received HOMER - The European Medal of Poetry and Art.^[9]

Works

• Poems. Selections.
• Poèmes. Extraits.
• Huoyan yu ciyu
• Au nom de la terre et de la vie
• Gesänge der Yi
• I ko I jen ti meng hsiang, 1989
• Im Namen von Land und Leben ausgewählte Reden
• Shijian - Éditions You-Feng, 2007, ISBN 2842793374

See also

• Chinese literature

References