Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "A Loud Noise" by Han Dong (China) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

作者簡介

韓東，1961年5月17日生，1982 年畢業於山東大學哲學系。詩人、小說家、劇作家。著有詩集《白色的石頭》、《爸爸在天上看我》、《重新做人》；中、短篇小說集《我們的身體》、《我的柏拉圖》、《明亮的疤痕》、《美元硬過人民幣》、《此呆已死》；長篇小說《扎根》、《我和你》、《小城好漢之英特邁往》、《知青變形記》、《中國情人》；電影劇本《在清朝》、《北京時間》、《愛你一萬年》等。2012 年他出版了雙語詩集《來自大連的電話》。

曾獲「劉麗安詩歌獎」、「華語文學傳媒大獎長篇小說獎」、「高黎貢文學節主席獎」、「金陵文學大獎」，以及「曼氏亞洲文學獎」提名。

Han Dong was born in 1961, and graduated in philosophy from Shandong University in 1982. He is a poet, novelist and screenwriter.His chief works include the poetry collections White Stones (《白色的石頭》), Dad’s Looking Down on Me from the Sky (《爸爸在天上看我》), and Becoming a New Person (《重新做人》); the short story and novella collections Our Bodies (《我們的身體》), My Plato (《我的柏拉圖》), Bright Scars (《明亮的疤痕》) , The Dollar Beats the RMB (《美元硬過人民幣》), and This Moron is Dead (《此呆已死》); the novels Striking Root (《扎根》, translated as Banished!, published by the University of Hawai’i Press), Me and You (《我和你》), A Small Town Hero Strides out (《小城好漢之英特邁往》), Metamorphosis of an Educated Youth (《知青變形記》), and A Chinese Lover (《中國情人》); the screenplays A Touch of Sin (《在清朝》), Beijing Days (《北京時間》), and I’ll Love You Forever (《愛你一萬年》). A bilingual volume of his poems, A Phone Call from Dalian (《來自大連的電話》), was published by The Chinese University Press and Zephyr Press in 2012.

Han Dong has won the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize, the Chinese Language Media Prize for Novels, the Gao Li Gong Literary Festival Chairman’s Prize, and the Jin Ling Literary Prize.《扎根》(Banished!) was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.