Zhao Si

Zhao Si (b. 1972) is a contemporary and avant-garde Chinese poetess, the author of 11 books of original poetry and others in re-song, including: "White Crow" (2005), "Gold-in-Sand Picker" (Prose Poems, 2005), "Disappearing, Recalling" (2016), "The Truth Tree of Time" (2024, forthcoming), and English translation book "In a Flash of Lightning" (2023), Slovak translation book "Zmiznutia a návraty" (2018), etc. Zhao Si's avant-garde role in the modernization and internationalization of Chinese poetry is complementary to her role in the translation and reception of a dozen books by world-leading poets, including: Tomaž Šalamun, Ted Hughes, Vladimir Holan, Edmond Jabès, Yannis Ritsos, Tim Lilburn, and others. She is the recipient of several awards: "2014 Major Support Project" of China Writers Association, "A Mai Ni" Poetry Prize (2023), Polish Jerzego Sulimy-Kaminskiego Literature Medal (2020) and Alfred Kowalkowski Medal for translation (2023).