Author · China
Yang Lian
Yang Lian was born in 1955 in Switzerland, in Bern according to Aisixiang, and returned to Beijing at the age of six. Sent to the countryside in the 1970s, he began writing there and became one of the authors of the journal Jintian and of so-called obscure poetry. A long sequence published in 1983 caused a stir and was attacked in 1984 in the official press. Invited to Australia and New Zealand in 1988, he became a poet in exile the following year; he lives in London and Berlin according to Paper Republic.