Liao Yiwu

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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer, poet, and dissident known for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government and his works documenting the lives of marginalized people in China.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dissident
human
poet
writer
alternateName Liao Yi-wu
surface form: Liao Yi Wu

Liao Yi-wu
awardReceived Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Award
surface form: Hellman/Hammett Grant

Human Rights Book Award
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage
birthDate 1958-08-16
birthPlace China
Sichuan Province
surface form: Sichuan

Yanting County
countryOfExile Germany
detentionEndYear 1994
detentionStartYear 1990
genre non-fiction
poetry
reportage literature
imprisonedFor writing and circulating a poem about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
knownFor documenting lives of marginalized people in China
oral history interviews
outspoken criticism of the Chinese government
language Chinese
movement Chinese democracy movement
name Liao Yiwu self-link
nationality Chinese
notableWork Bullets and Opium
For a Song and a Hundred Songs
God Is Red
Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society
The Corpse Walker
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China From the Bottom Up
occupation documentary writer
journalist
poet
writer
politicalAlignment Chinese dissident
residence Berlin
subjectOf Chinese prison system
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
censorship in China
workFocus marginalized groups in China
religious minorities in China
rural poor in China
victims of political persecution in China

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Liao Yiwu name Liao Yiwu self-link