Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 154 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest. |
| Interests | reading, writing, cinema |
| Favorite Movies | The Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Decalogue, The Kingdom, Rashomon, ... |
| Favorite Books | Being and Time, the Bible, To the Lighthouse, Waiting for Godot, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, ... |