Lu Xun Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (2010) Winner
Tie Liu
ティエ・リュウ
Tie Liu
Pen Names:
Tie Liu（Used as a pen name）,
Huang Zerong（Birth name）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1933-05-29 （Sichuan, Republic of China）
- Died
- 2024-09-08 （China） age 91
- Nationality
- China
- Languages
- Chinese
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Underground publisher, Journalist
- Active Years
- 1950-2024
Awards & Nominations
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Reflective toneTestimonial/record-oriented, leaning toward non-fictionContains dissident and critical commentary
- Recurring Motifs
- Memories of labor reform and imprisonmentPolitical persecution and individual sufferingBearing witness to history
Legacy
Tie Liu (Huang Zerong) is known as a dissident writer and underground publisher who documented Mao-era persecutions from personal experience and published testimonies of victims. Labeled a 'rightist' in 1957 and subjected to roughly 23 years of re-education through labor, he later worked as a journalist and published banned memoirs. His works were often suppressed in China; in later life he was detained and convicted, making him a symbolic figure in the struggle for free expression in China.
Archives
- Archive held by international human rights organizations (specific names not available)
Trivia
- Labeled a 'rightist' during the 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign and spent about 23 years in labour reform.
- From the 1980s he published memoirs and testimonies of victims; many of these works were banned in China.
- Detained in 2014 and convicted in 2015 of 'illegal business activity' with a suspended sentence.
- Pen name: Tie Liu. Birth name: Huang Zerong.