Yang Mu
Yang Mu | |
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| Native name | 王靖獻 |
| Born | Wang Ching-hsien 6 September 1940 Hualien County, Taiwan |
| Died | 13 March 2020 (aged 79) Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Resting place | Hualien County, Taiwan |
| Occupation | poet, essayist, critic, translator, professor in classical Chinese literature |
| Language | Chinese, English, Old English, German |
| Education | Tunghai University (BA) University of Iowa (MFA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Period | 1956–2020 |
| Genre | poetry, prose |
| Notable awards | National Culture and Arts Award (國家文藝獎) Best Chinese Writing in the World (世界華文文學獎) Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (紐曼華語文學獎） Cikada Prize (瑞典蟬獎） |
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Yang Mu (Chinese: 楊牧; pinyin: Yáng Mù, September 6, 1940 – March 13, 2020) was a pen name of Wang Ching-hsien (王靖獻), a Taiwanese poet, essayist, critic, translator, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, and founding dean at NDHU College of Humanities and Social Sciences and HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is considered one of the most accomplished poets writing in Chinese in the 20th and 21st century, known for his lyricism and linguistic ingenuity, modernising the Chinese diction and syntax while reviving a sublime style out of the idiom and imagery of Chinese and Western poetic traditions.
Yang Mu was praised by Swedish Academy member Göran Malmqvist, who translated his work into Swedish, as the closest Taiwanese poet to the Nobel Prize. He was the first Taiwanese winner of Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (2013) and Cikada Prize (2016).