Liu Shahe | |||||||||
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| Born | 11 November 1931 Chengdu, Sichuan, China | ||||||||
| Died | 23 November 2019 (aged 88) Chengdu, Sichuan, China | ||||||||
| Occupation | Poet, writer, publisher | ||||||||
| Language | Chinese | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Sichuan University | ||||||||
| Period | 1948–2019 | ||||||||
| Notable works | The Country Nocturnes (1956), Poems of Liu Shahe (1982) | ||||||||
| Notable awards | National Prize for Poetry | ||||||||
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 流沙河 | ||||||||
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| Birth name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余勋坦 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 余勛坦 | ||||||||
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Yu Xuntan (Chinese: 余勋坦; 11 November 1931 – 23 November 2019), known by his pen name Liu Shahe (Chinese: 流沙河), was a Chinese writer and poet.[1][2] The son of a Sichuan landowner who was executed in the Land Reform Movement, he began publishing in 1948 and became a professional writer in 1952. He co-founded the poetry magazine Stars in 1956, but was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" when the Anti-Rightist Campaign began in 1957. For the next two decades he performed hard labour and was exiled to the countryside until the end of the Cultural Revolution. He resumed publishing in 1978, and his collection, Poems of Liu Shahe (1982), won the National Prize for Poetry.