Author Description

Fu Hao, born in Xi'an, China in 1963, lives and works as research professor of English in Beijing. He writes poetry bilingually in Chinese and English and translates from English, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Japanese. He has won various literary awards, including the Liang Shih-ch'iu Literary Prize for Poetry Translation from Taiwan, and the Underground Poetry English Poetry Writing Competition Prize for Best Poems, sponsored by the British Council. In Chinese he has published two books of poetry, three collections of essays, one booklet on T'ai Chi Ch'uan, two monographs of literary criticism and over thirty volumes of translation of world literature, including The Complete Lyrical Poems of W. B. Yeats, Amorushatakam, Collected Poems of John Donne, and Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams.