This year, the winner of the prestigious H-Shi Prize awarded to a new poet for a collection of remarkable Japanese poems is Tian Yuan from China. Tian's book ‘‘Ishi no Kioku’’ (Memory of Stone) is the first book from a Chinese writer to have won the award, according to Japan Poets Association. This is Tian's second book of Japanese poems.
Tian was born in Henan, China and now lives in Sendai, Japan. She teaches Chinese in Tohoku University.
In 2008, the award went to Maiko Sugimoto's second poetry collection "Sodeguchi No Dobutsu." Sugmoto teaches in the Creative Arts Department of Utsunomiya A&S Polytechnic.
Tian was born in Henan, China and now lives in Sendai, Japan. She teaches Chinese in Tohoku University.
In 2008, the award went to Maiko Sugimoto's second poetry collection "Sodeguchi No Dobutsu." Sugmoto teaches in the Creative Arts Department of Utsunomiya A&S Polytechnic.
