Harvard University Press to Publish Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

By Maryann Yin on Galley Cat, December 3, 2010 11:25 AM

Harvard University Press will translate works by Chinese author Liu Xiaobo, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. Publication for the untitled anthology is set for 2012.

Xiaobo (pictured) writes poetry, essays, and social commentary about political reform in China. The academic press has enlisted Perry Link (chancellorial chair in teaching across disciplines at the University of California, Riverside) to supervise a translation team. Link had this statement: “Until he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo was little known in the West. This collection offers to the reader of English the full range of his astute and penetrating analyses of culture, politics, and society in China today.”

So far, Xiaobo has served almost two years of his 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” Liu Xia, his wife, has been put under house arrest.