Ye Yanbin

A contemporary writer, now the director of Poetry Committee of China Writers’ Association and member of the 6th, 7th and 8th National Committee of China Writers’ Association. In 1978, he was admitted to the Department of Journalism of Beijing Broadcasting University. In 1980, he published his poem “Adoptive Mother” during his college years and won “The Poetry Award” of China Writers’ Association (1979–1980), and then admitted as a member of China Writers’ Association. After graduation in 1982, he worked successively as an editor, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of “Star Poetry” magazine for 12 years. In 1993, he was appraised as full senior editor and awarded the special allowance of the government. In 1994, he was transferred by the Ministry of Personnel of the People’s Republic of China to the Department of Literature and Art, Beijing Broadcasting University as the director of the department. In 1995, he was transferred to the “Journal of Poetry” magazine run by China Writers’ Association as deputy editor-in-chief, and then executive deputy editor-in-chief and editor in chief. In 2012, he served as the deputy director of Poetry Working Committee of China Writers’ Association. In 2016, he served as the director of Poetry Committee of China Writers’ Association.
Up to now, his 52 literature monographs have been published, among them, collective works include “Revelation of Life” (1988), “Sadness in Autumn” (1993), “22 Rules of Poetry” (1993), “Listen to the Wind and Count the Geese” (1996), “Daydream” (1998), “Eternal Face” (1998), “Joking about Spiritual Tour” (1998), “Ye Yanbin’s Prose” (1999), “Dream and Apple” (1999), “Feeling on the Road” (2000), “Savings of Sentiment” (2000), “Shadows Passing By” (2000), “Poems and Thoughts” (2001), “Black and White Building Blocks” (2001), “From Which End Do You Eat Bananas” (2002), “Ye Yanbin’s Essays” (2002), “Candlelight and Night Sound (2003), “Ye Yanbin’s Proses” (2004), “Ye Yanbin’s Collected Works (four volumes)” (2004), “Reasons of the World” (2008), “The Scenery Is Where You Look Back” (2011), “China’s Centennial Essays: Ye Yanbin Volume” (2013), “Heaven Knows” (2014), “Consulting Mark Twain” (2015), “Haunted by Dreams” (2016), “Grass Color, Sounds of Nature” (2017), “Moon Shadow, the Station of Youth” (2017), “Previous Life Is a Bird” (2018), etc. Collections of poems include “There Are No Regrets” (1983), “Duet” (1985), “Milky Spring” (1986), “Heart’s Meditation” (1986), “Prisoner and Dove” (1988), “Selected Poems of Ye Yanbin” (1988), “Between Heaven and Hell” (1989), “Honeymoon Mottoes” (1989), “Urban Romance” (1989), “The Song of Blood” (1991), “The Temptation of Forbidden Fruit” (1992), “Today’s Nine Odes” (1992), “Walking with You” (1993), “Rose Flame” (1994), “21st Century Impression” (1997), “Beautiful Moment” (1999), “Vicissitudes” (2002), “Ye Yanbin’s Short Poetry Anthology” (2003), “The Annual-rings of Poetry” (2008), “Time Portrait (Collection of Poems and Essays)” (2008), “River behind Time” (2010), “Selected Works of Ye Yanbin” (2011), “The Rock that Wants to Fly” (2018), “The Flight of Swan” (2019), etc.
Since 1980, his works have been collected in more than 550 kinds of anthologies as well as college and secondary school textbooks both at home and abroad. Some of his works were translated into English, French, Russian, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Polish and Macedonian. “Adoptive Mother”, a representative poem, won “The Poetry Award for Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Poets” of Chinese Writers’ Association (1979–1980). The collection of poems “Duet” won “The Third New Poetry Collection Award” of China Writers’ Association (1985–1986). Other poems and essays have won more than 50 literary awards such as “The Sichuan Literature Prize”, “October Literature Award” and “Youth Literature Award”.