François Cheng

François Cheng ( born August 30, 1929 in Nanchang, China) is a writer, poet and calligrapher.

Life

Cheng comes from a family of writers and studied at the University of Nanjing. In 1949, he decided, because of his enthusiasm for the French language and culture, to settle in France (since 1973 he is a French citizen ). Since 1960 he pursued an academic career, including as a language teacher for students of the School of Oriental Languages ​​( Ecole des langues orientales ) in Paris. In addition, he has emerged as a translator of poetry.

Works

• Analysis of formal de l' œuvre d'un auteur poétique of Tang: Zhang Ruoxu (1970 )
• Le Pousse - pousse, de Lao She ( traduction, 1973)
• L' écriture chinoise poétique, Éditions du Seuil, (1977 and 1996)
• Vide et plein le langage pictural chinois, Éditions du Seuil, (1979 and 1991 )
• L' Espace du rêve: mille ans de peinture chinoise, Phebus, (1980 )
• Sept poètes français ( 1983)
• Henri Michaux, sa vie, son œuvre (1984 )
• Chu Ta le genie du trait, Phebus, (1986 )
• Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and its relation to Chinese Cosmology dans The Vitality of the Lyric Voice (1986 )
• The Reciprocity of Subject and Object in Chinese Poetic Language dans Poetics East and West (1988 )
• De l' arbre et du rocher, poèmes, Fata Morgana (1989 )
• Souffle -Esprit, Éditions du Seuil, (1989 and 2006)
• Entre source et nuage, Voix de poètes dans la Chine et d'aujourd'hui d' here Albin Michel (1990 and 2002)
• Saisons à vie, poèmes, Encre marine, (1993 )
• Trente -six poèmes d' amour, poèmes, Unes, (1997)
• Quand les pierres font signe ( 1997) ( with Fabienne Verdier )
• Le Dit de Tianyi, Albin Michel, (1998) Prix Femina
• Double chant, Encre Marine, (1998), Prix Roger Caillois
• Shitao: la saveur du monde, Phebus, (1998) Prix André- Malraux
• Cantos toscans, Unes, (1999)
• D' où le chant jaillit, Phebus, (2000)
• Grammar chinoise, poèmes, Albin Michel, (2000)
• Qui dira notre nuit, poèmes, Arfuyen, (2001)
• L' éternité n'est pas de trop, Albin Michel, (2002)
• Le Dialogue, Une passion pour la langue française, Desclée de Brouwer (2002)
• Le Long d' un amour, poèmes, Arfuyen, (2003)
• Le Livre du vide médian, poèmes, Albin Michel, (2004)
• Que nos instants d' accueil soient, avec Francis Herth, Les Amis du Livre contemporain, (2005)
• À l' orient de tout, poèmes, Gallimard (2005)
• Cinq sur la beauté méditations, Albin Michel, ( 2006) ( ISBN 2226172157 )
• Fullness and emptiness: the language of Chinese painting. Berlin: Merve, 2004, ISBN 3-88396-198-1

Awards

In 2001 he received the Grand Prize of the French Academy and was elected as the first Asian ever to member on 13 June 2002.

Setting

• Claire Vazart (* 1964): Toi le féminin for soprano and piano ( = No. 6 set to music from the song cycle Au Feminin, in the texts of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Paul Éluard, Carole Zalberg (* 1965), Claudine Help and Georges sedir are )