Skip to content

Liao Yiwu

About

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China.

He is the author of the epic poem ‘Massacre’, the publication of which led to his four-year imprisonment. His non-fiction works include The Corpse Walker and Other True Stories of Life in China (Text Publishing, 2011). In 2003 he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant and in 2007 he received a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Centre.

Stay up to date with our upcoming events and special announcements by subscribing to The Wheeler Centre's mailing list.

Privacy Policy

The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their Elders, past and present, as the custodians of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.