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Ha Jin to be Final Judge for the International HKU Poetry Prize 2012

15 Mar 2012

 

The School of English is pleased to announce that award-winning writer Ha Jin (哈金) will be the final judge of the International HKU Poetry Prize 2012. Ha Jin was born Jin Xuefei in 1956 in the Chinese Province of Liaoning, and studied at Heilongjiang and Shandong Universities before moving to the US in 1985. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English at Boston University. He has authored collections of poetry, short stories, as well as novels, including the widely acclaimed Waiting (1999). He is the recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Asian American Literary Award.

The School is inviting submissions for the International HKU Poetry Prize 2012 from poets around the world writing in English who have not previously published, or self-published, a full-length collection of poems. The winner receives publication of a first collection of poems with the Hong Kong University Press. Deadline for submission is June 15, 2012.

The HKU Poetry Prize is supported by the HKU Culture and Humanities Fund.

Media enquiries, please contact Ms Georgina Challen, Public Affairs Manager, Faculty of Arts (tel: 2219 4250 email: gchallen@hku.hk ) or Ms Phyllis Mak, Programme Manager, Faculty of Arts, HKU (tel: 2859 8048, email: kpmak@hku.hk).