武漢 | 廖亦武

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「有他這樣的追索真相的人，在德國寫書、被翻譯、出版、受到歡迎，世界才有希望。」——台灣外交官謝志偉

「極度瘋狂的旅程……這部偉大的著作是一個典範。」——《時代周刊》，Thomas E. Schmidt

「廖亦武的表現一如既往地光彩奪目。他不迴避痛苦，不迴避恐怖，並由此發展出一種情景喜劇的活靈活現和一種驚人的異樣的溫柔。」——《法蘭克福匯報》，Mark Siemons

德國書業和平獎得主廖亦武的新小說——一次巨大的、令人興奮的全球化病毒時代的中國之旅。

廖亦武

　　1958年8月生於四川鹽亭，天安門大屠殺主要見證人之一，政治犯群體中最為突出的詩人、作家、音樂家，也是西方公認的中國監獄文學開拓者。

　　因在1989年6月4日凌晨，與加拿大漢學家 Michael Martin Day 一起創作並製作《大屠殺》錄音磁帶，並傳播到20多個城市，以及組織拍攝詩歌電影《安魂》而被捕，判刑四年，受盡折磨，曾在獄中自殺兩次。出獄後長期從事底層故事採集和地下文學創作，并通過「二渠道」出版了被中宣部和公安部聯合查禁的《沉淪的聖殿》《中國底層訪談錄》。

　　2007年，紐約經紀人彼得•伯恩斯坦在《巴黎評論》看到黃文翻譯的《底層》片段，立即取得全球版權。經數家出版社競爭，2008年5月該書英文版The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up由蘭登書店出版，令廖亦武在西方一夜成名。彼得•伯恩斯坦評價道：「廖亦武不僅是中國當代作家中最優秀、最具挑戰性和創新的一位，更是一位勇敢大膽的有著獨立意志的人，任何時候都會捍衛自己自由言論和自由思考的權利（Liao is not only a fine writer but a courageous and brave and individual willing to stand up at every turn for his right to speak and think freely.）。」

　　可在中國，他始終被嚴密監控，被警察多次抄家並監禁，被搜繳手稿達幾百萬字，僅《六四•我的證詞》便重寫了三次。也曾十七次被阻止出國。2011年7月，在德國外交部長韋斯特維勒的親自幫助下，買通黑社會，走過中越邊境，從河內輾轉飛抵柏林。稍後獲得德意志學術交流中心2012年獎學金。

　　他的主要著作有《大屠殺》、《二次屠殺》，獄中詩集《古拉格情歌》，音樂專輯《河流或時間》，紀實文學《六四 我的證詞》、《吆屍人》、《上帝是紅色的》、《子彈鴉片》等，長篇小說《輪迴的螞蟻》、《毛時代的愛情》、《鄧時代的地下詩人》等。他的作品已被翻譯成近三十種外語，佳評如潮。也曾多次被劉曉波、赫塔•穆勒、獨立中文筆會等個人或組織推薦為諾貝爾文學獎候選人。2019年歲末，《子彈鴉片》英文版入選全球十大人權書籍，名列第四。

　　廖亦武主要獲獎記錄：
　　Hellman-Hammett Grant獎(1995/2003）
　　自由寫作獎（獨立中文筆會，2007）
　　最佳圖書奬（美國《當代基督教》月刊，2011）
　　紹爾兄妹獎 （2011）
　　德國最佳廣播劇獎（2011）
　　德國書業和平獎（法蘭克福書展，2012）
　　卡普欽斯基國際報導文學獎（2012）
　　法蘭西文學和藝術軍官勛章（2013）
　　阿夏芬堡公民勇氣奬（2013）
　　抵抗詩人奬（法國Mouans-Sartoux書展，2015）|
　　霍恩舍恩豪森獎（前東德國家安全部監獄博物館，2016）
　　瓦茨拉夫•哈維爾圖書基金會奬（紐約，2018）

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Liao Yiwu (born August 1958 in Yanting, Sichuan, China) is a Chinese writer, poet, musician, and dissident widely recognized as one of the foremost chroniclers of contemporary China’s marginalized voices and political trauma. Internationally, he is regarded as a pioneering figure in Chinese prison literature.

Liao became one of the major literary witnesses of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. In the early hours of June 4, 1989, he collaborated with Canadian sinologist Michael Martin Day to create and distribute an audio recording titled Massacre, which circulated across more than twenty Chinese cities. He also organized the filming of the poetry documentary Requiem. As a result, he was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison, where he endured severe torture and reportedly attempted suicide twice.

After his release, Liao dedicated himself to documenting the lives of ordinary and marginalized people in China through underground literature and oral history. His acclaimed works include The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up, God Is Red, Bullets and Opium, and For a Song and a Hundred Songs. Though banned in China, his writings gained international recognition for their powerful portrayals of dissidents, prisoners, underground Christians, and members of the social underclass.

In 2008, the English edition of The Corpse Walker was published by Random House, bringing Liao widespread international acclaim. Literary agent Peter Bernstein described him as:

“A courageous and brave individual willing to stand up at every turn for his right to speak and think freely.”

Despite his growing reputation abroad, Liao remained under intense surveillance in China for many years. His home was repeatedly searched, manuscripts confiscated, and he was prevented from traveling overseas numerous times. In 2011, with assistance connected to German diplomatic efforts, he escaped China through Vietnam and eventually settled in Berlin.

His major works include Massacre, The Second Massacre, the prison poetry collection Gulag Love Songs, the music album River or Time, and documentary works such as June Fourth: My Testimony, God Is Red, and Bullets and Opium. His writings have been translated into nearly thirty languages, and he has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Hellman-Hammett Grant (1995, 2003)
• Freedom to Write Award — Independent Chinese PEN Center (2007)
• Best Book Award — Christianity Today (2011)
• Geschwister-Scholl Prize (2011)
• German Radio Drama Prize (2011)
• German Book Trade Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2012)
• Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage (2012)
• French Order of Arts and Letters (2013)
• Aschaffenburg Civic Courage Award (2013)
• Poet of Resistance Award — Mouans-Sartoux Book Festival, France (2015)
• Hohenschönhausen Prize (2016)
• Václav Havel Library Foundation Award (2018)