Biography

西川（本名刘军），诗人、随笔作家、翻译家，1963年生于江苏，1985年毕业于北京大学 英文系。现为北京中央美术学院中国文学教授。系纽约大学2007年附属访问教授、加拿大 维多利亚大学2009年奥赖恩访问艺术家、香港浸会大学2010年访问作家。西川出版有四部 诗集，包括《虚构的家谱》（1997）《大意如此》（1997），两部随笔集，一部论著，一 部诗文选，一部诗剧，另外还翻译有庞德、博尔赫斯、米沃什等人的作品。其诗歌和文章 被收入多种选集并被广泛翻译。曾获1994年现代汉诗奖、1997年联合国教科文组织阿奇伯 格奖修金、2001年鲁迅文学奖、2003年庄重文文学奖、1999年德国魏玛全球论文竞赛十佳 奖等。

XI CHUAN (pen-name of Liu Jun) is a Chinese poet, essayist and translator. Born in 1963 in Jiangsu province, he graduated from the English Department of Beijing University in 1985. Previously a visiting adjunct professor at New York University (2007), and an Orion visiting artist at University of Victoria, Canada (2009), he currently teaches classical and modern Chinese literature at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Xi Chuan has published four collections of poems, including A Fictitious Family Tree (1997) and Roughly Speaking (1997), two books of essays and a book of critical writings, in addition to a play and numerous translations of Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, Czeslaw Milosz, and others. His work has been widely anthologized and translated. His awards include Modern Chinese Poetry Award (1994), UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists (1997), National Lu Xun Prize for Literature (2001), and Zhuang Zhongwen Prize for Literature (2003). He was also one of the top ten winners of the 1999 Weimar International Essay Prize Contest in Germany.

LUCAS KLEIN — a former radio DJ and union organizer — is a writer, translator, and editor of Cipher Journal. His translations, essays, and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Two Lines, Jacket, and Drunken Boat. He regularly reviews books for Rain Taxi and other venues. A graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and Yale University (PhD), he is assistant professor in the department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. Endure, a small collection of Bei Dao’s poems, co-translated with Clayton Eshleman, is newly published by Black Widow Press. In addition to Xi Chuan, he is at work translating Tang dynasty poet, Li Shangyin.