Yang Ke (China)

YANG Ke is a member of the Presidium of the Chinese Writers Association, president of the Chinese Poetry Society, president and editor in Chief of the Literary Journal, and Research Fellow of the Poetry Research Institute of Peking University.

So far, Yang Ke has published  twelve poetry selections including Yang Ke’s Poems, Related and Unrelated, I Speak the Shape of the Wind, I Saw My Country in A Pomegranate, four prose essays and one non-fiction book by The People’s Literature Publishing House and Taiwan Huapin Wenchuang Co.Ltd., etc. Yang Ke’s poetry books have been translated into 16 languages. 

Yang Ke was the Editor-in-chief of Chinese New Poetry Yearbook (1998-2019).  He was awarded, among others,  the “Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry Award” in the United Kingdom, the “Outstanding Poet Award” from the Romanian Publishing Copyright Corporation. He also held solo exhibitions in poetry at the Shenzhen Art Museum.