
(1959-)MAINLAND CHINA 中國大陸
Song Lin was born in Xiamen, Fujian in 1959. He graduated from East China Normal University in Shanghai in 1983 and in 1991 moved to France to pursue graduate work in Far Eastern Studies at Université Paris Diderot. He has since lived in Singapore and Argentina. He has taught at various universities in China since 2003, and currently writes and paints full-time. His poetry collections include City Dwellers (Collected Works, 1987), Vestibule (2000), Fragments and Farewell Songs (2006), The City Wall and the Setting Sun (2007), Visiting Mr. Dai on Snowy Nights (2015), and Oral Message (2015). His essay collections include Continuous Approaches to Moving Icebergs and Orpheus Looks Back (2014). With the poet Zhang Zao, he edited the anthology Blank Etudes (2002). He is an editor for the journals Today and Reading Poetry, and serves on the editorial board of Contemporary International Poetry. He is a recipient of the Rotterdam International Poetry Award, the Shanghai Literature Magazine Award, and the Dong Dangzi Poetry Award.
1959年生於福建廈門,祖籍寧德。1983年畢業於上海華東師範大學中文系。1991年移居法國,曾就讀於巴黎第七大學遠東系,先後在新加坡、阿根廷居留。2003年以來受聘於國內幾所大學執教。目前專事寫作與繪畫。著有詩集《城市人》(合集,1987年)、《門廳》(2000年)、《斷片與驪歌》(2006年)、《城牆與落日》(2007年)、《雪夜訪戴》(2015年)、《口信》(2015);隨筆集《對移動冰川的不斷接近》(2014年),《俄爾甫斯回頭》(2014年);編有詩選《空白練習曲》(合作,2002年)。《今天》文學雜誌的詩歌編輯,《讀詩》主編之一,《當代國際詩壇》編委。曾獲得鹿特丹國際詩歌節獎、「上海文學」獎、東蕩子詩歌獎等。