Bei Dao

Bei Dao
Bei Dao di Tallinn, 2010
Lahir	Zhao Zhenkai 2 Agustus 1949 Beijing, Tiongkok
Warga negara	Tiongkok (1949-89) Tak bernegara (1989-2009) Amerika Serikat (dari 2009)
Pekerjaan	Penyair, Profesor, Esayis, Penulis Fiksi
Tahun aktif	1978–kini
Penghargaan	Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings (2015)

Bei Dao (Hanzi sederhana: 北岛; Hanzi tradisional: 北島; Pinyin: Běi Dǎo; harfiah: 'Pulau Utara', lahir 2 Agustus 1949) adalah nama pena dari penulis Tionghoa-Amerika Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: Zhào Zhènkāi). Menjadi salah satu penyair berbahasa Tionghoa paling menonjol dari generasinya, ia berulang kali dinominasikan untuk Nobel Kesusastraan. Selain syair, ia merupakan penulis fiksi pendek, esai dan memoir.

Karya

• The August Sleepwalker (1990)
• Old Snow (1991)
• Forms of Distance (1994)
• Landscape Over Zero (1995)
• At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996)
• Unlock (2000).

Bacaan tambahan

• Edmond, Jacob, "Bei Dao and World Literature," A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. pp. 95–124.
• Kinkley, Jeffrey (penyunting), After Mao: Chinese Literature and Society, 1978-1981, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
• Li, Dian, The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978-2000: Resistance and Exile, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
• McDougall, Bonnie, "Bei Dao's Poetry: Revelation and Communication," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1985. pp. 225–252.
• McDougall, Bonnie, "Zhao Zhenkai's Fiction: A Study in Cultural Alienation," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1984. pp. 103–130.
• Schwarcz, Vera, Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
• Sze, Arthur (penyunting), Chinese Writers on Writing, San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010.
• Tan, Chee-Lay, Constructing a System of Irregularities: The Poetry of Bei Dao, Yang Lian, and Duoduo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Pranala luar

• Profile at Poets.org
• Profile at Poetry Foundation
• "Travel" by Bei Dao at Guernica Magazine.
• Interview with Visiting Artist Bei Dao by Siobhan LaPiana in The Journal
• "Thirteen poems", Jacket 14, July 2001
• "Untitled"; "This Day"; "February"; "We", In Translation, December, 2009
• Profile and links at Stanford Presidential lectures