Alai (author)

Alai
Native name 阿来
Born 1959 (age 5657)
Barkam County, Ngawa, Sichuan
Occupation Novelist
Language Chinese
Alma mater Barkan Normal College
Period 1982 - present
Genre Novel, poem
Notable works Red Poppies
Notable awards 5th Mao Dun Literary Prize
2005 Red Poppies

Alai (Chinese: 阿来; pinyin: Ālái; Tibetan: ཨ་ལེ་, Wylie: a-le, ZYPY: Alê, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ɑ́lè] ; born 1959 in Sichuan province) is a Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descendent. He was also editor of Science Fiction World. [1]

Works

Alai's notable novel Red Poppies (The Dust Settles - Chen'ai Luoding), published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains, the Maichi, during the decade or so before the liberation of Tibet by the People's Liberation Army in 1951. Their feudal life in the Tibetan borderlands, narrated by the youngest "idiot" son, is described as cruel, romantic, and full of intrigue (with the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). Red Poppies was selected as a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize in 2002 and won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2005. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Shi, Shi (2015-11-02). "阿来,一位以藏语构思、汉语写作的作家" [Alai, a Chinese novelist with Tibetan ideas] (in Chinese). The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-05-17.

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