Alai (author)

Alai
Native name	阿来
Born	1959 (age 56–57) Barkam County, Ngawa, Sichuan
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Chinese
Alma mater	Barkan Normal College
Period	1982 - present
Genre	Novel, poem
Notable works	Red Poppies
Notable awards	5th Mao Dun Literary Prize 2005 Red Poppies

Alai (Chinese: 阿来; pinyin: Ālái; Tibetan: ཨ་ལེ་, Wylie: a-le, ZYPY: Alê, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ɑ́lè] ; born 1959 in Sichuan province) is a Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descendent. He was also editor of Science Fiction World.

Works

Alai's notable novel Red Poppies (The Dust Settles - Chen'ai Luoding), published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains, the Maichi, during the decade or so before the liberation of Tibet by the People's Liberation Army in 1951. Their feudal life in the Tibetan borderlands, narrated by the youngest "idiot" son, is described as cruel, romantic, and full of intrigue (with the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). Red Poppies was selected as a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize in 2002 and won the 5th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2005.

Bibliography

The Song of King Gesar. Translators Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. December 2013. ISBN 9781847672353.
Tibetan Soul: Stories. Translators Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. February 2012. ISBN 978-1-937385-08-8.
Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet. Translators Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. May 2003. ISBN 9780618340699.

References

External links

Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet review by Gang Yue from University of North Carolina

Mao Dun Literature Prize

1st (1982)	Wei Wei – Orient Zhou Keqin – Xu Mao and His daughters Yao Xueyin – Li Zicheng Mo Yingfeng – General's Chant Li Guowen – Spring in Winter Gu Hua – A Small Town Called Hibiscus

2nd (1985)	Zhang Jie – Leaden Wings Liu Xinwu – Bell and Drum Tower Li Zhun – Yellow River Flowing to East

3rd (1991)	Lu Yao – Ordinary World Ling Li – Young Emperor Sun Li and Yu Xiaohui – Rhapsody of Metropolis Liu Baiyu – The Second Sun Huo Da – The Funeral of Muslim Xiao Ke – Bloody Heaven Xu Xingye – Broken Golden Bowl

4th (1997)	Chen Zhongshi – White Deer Plain Wang Huo – War and People Liu Sifen – White Gate Willow Liu Yumin – Unsettled Autumn

5th (2000)	Alai – After the Dust Settled Wang Anyi – The Song of Everlasting Sorrow Zhang Ping – Decision Wang Xufeng – Three Episodes of Tea-man

6th (2005)	Xiong Zhaozheng – Zhang Juzheng Zhang Jie – Wordless Xu Guixiang – Heaven of History Liu Jianwei – Heroic Time Zong Pu – Lead-in of Wild Gourd

7th (2008)	Jia Pingwa – Qin Qiang Chi Zijian – The Right Bank of Er'guna River Mai Jia – Plot Zhou Daxin – The Scenery of the Lake and the Mountain

8th (2011)	Zhang Wei – On the Plateau Liu Xinglong – Skywalker Bi Feiyu – Massage Mo Yan – Frog Liu Zhenyun – One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand

9th (2015)	Su Tong – Yellowbird Story Ge Fei – Jiangnan Trilogy Wang Meng – Scenery on this Side Jin Yucheng – Blossoms Li Peifu – The Book of Life

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 85595741 LCCN: nr2001029499 GND: 128832304 SUDOC: 071550739 BNF: cb14466596b (data)

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