Zang Di

Born in Beijing in April 1964, was admitted to Chinese Department of Peking University in September 1983 and received a PhD in Literature from Peking University in July 1997, where he has been teaching since 1996 and is currently a professor in Chinese Department and editor of the journal New Poetry Criticism. He briefly worked as a journalist for China News Agency from 1990 to 1993. He has ever won numerous poetic prizes and awards including Pearl River International Poetry Festival Award in 2007, Perfect Chinese Literature Award from Changjiang River Literature & Art in 2008, the Poet of the Year 2008 Award from Chinese Literature Media Awards, etc. His many honors include one of Contemporary China’s Top Ten Prominent Young Poets (2005), 1979-2005 China’s Top Ten Avant-Courier Poets (2006), China’s Top Ten Rising Poetry Critics (2007), Contemporary China’s Top Ten Rising Poets (2007), Chinese Poetry Biennial Top Ten Poets (2008), etc. He is the author of several collections of poetry, in­cluding Memory of Yan Yuan (1998), The Rustle of Leaves in the Wind (2000), Fresh Thorns (2002), The Universe is Flat (2008), and Emp­ty-City Strategy (2009)。