HuaiChen Wu

Wu Huaichen is a poet from Taiwan. He is a distinguished professor and director of the College of Humanities at Taipei National University of the Arts. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. His areas of expertise include Comparative Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and Poetry Writing. Wu was also a visiting scholar at the University of Texas in Austin from 2022-23.

 He has published multiple literary works, including the poetry book “Gulps of the Pouring Light ” (winner of the Golden Tripod Awards for Excellent Literary Book), “Surfer Romance” (winner of the Wu Zhuoliu Literary Prize‧ Poetry Award ), and the prose “Songs of a Surfer” (winner of China Times Open Book Award, the Best Book of the Year), etc. In addition, he has published several academic collections of research essays on literature and philosophy, and he is also the translator of several important academic books, including Georges Bataille’s “Tears of Eros” in Chinese.

 As a professor of the Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Study on Creative Writing and Literature, Wu has advised many talented young writers. As a poet, he has been invited to participate in numerous international poetry festivals such as the Asian International Poetry Festival, the Taipei International Poetry Festival, the Pacific International Poetry Festival, and the Singapore Writers Festival.

吴怀晨，台湾诗人，任教于台北艺术大学文学跨领域创作所，近年专注书写台湾的山海文学。他的学术专长包括比较哲学、现当代华文文学、及新诗写作，曾任美国德州大学奥斯丁分校访问学者（2022-23）。出版诗集《渴饮光流》(获金鼎奖）、《浪人吟》(获吴浊流文学奖新诗奖）及散文集《浪人之歌》(获开卷年度好书奖）等，并有学术著作及译作多种。

Awards

• 2022: Times Literary Prize for Fiction
• 2022: Zhong Zhaozheng Literary Award for Literary Reportage
• 2021: Golden Tripod Awards for Excellent Literary Book
• 2016: Wu Zhuoliu Literary Prize, Best Poetry
• 2015: Published Grant by National Cultural and Arts Foundation Taiwan
• 2013: China Times Open Book Award, the Best Book of the Year