赵四,诗人、翻译家、诗学学者、编辑。文学博士(中国社科院)、博士后。作为诗人,她在海内外出版有自己的原创诗集和译诗选11种,包括《白乌鸦》《消失,记忆》《时间的真相树》(2024,待出),小品文集《拣沙者》,英语诗集《在一道闪电中》,斯洛伐克语诗集《出离与返归》(斯语中第一本中国当代诗人诗选),韩语诗集《玫瑰与祭肉》,西班牙语《赵四诗文选》(2024,即出)等。作为译者,她出版有12种译著,包括萨拉蒙大型诗选《蓝光枕之塔》《太阳沸腾的众口》,《门槛·沙:雅贝斯诗全集》(合译),霍朗《与哈姆雷特之夜》(暨长文《俄耳甫斯主义诗人》),特德·休斯《乌鸦》《季节之歌》,《利尔本诗选》等。其长文《译可译,非常译》收入国家“十三五”重点图书项目《中国新诗总论·翻译卷》。她获得过中国作协“2014重点作品扶持”、 首届阿买妮诗歌奖(2023),波兰杰里·苏利马-卡明斯基文学奖章(2020)、阿尔弗雷德·科瓦尔可夫斯基文学翻译奖章等荣誉,是加拿大维多利亚大学2017-2018年度访问艺术家。目前在《诗刊》供职。2017年始,加入欧洲荷马诗歌&文艺奖章评委会,任副主席,主编“荷马奖章桂冠诗人译丛”。
Zhao Si is a contemporary and avant-garde Chinese poetess, the author of 11 books of original poetry and others in re-song, including: White Crow (2005), Gold-in-Sand Picker (2005), Disappearing, Recalling:2009-2014 New Selected Poems (2016), The Truth Tree of Time (2024, forthcoming), Zmiznutia a návraty (2018, honored to be the first book of contemporary Chinese poet published in Slovakia), Roses and Sacrificial Meat (Korean translation, New York, 2019), In a Flash of Lightening: 54 Poems of Cosmic Vision (English translation, Canada, 2023), Selected Poems and Prose of Zhao Si (Spanish translation, Buenos Aires, 2024, forthcoming). She is a skillful poetry translator of 12 books, including: two poetry books of Tomaž Šalamun (both 400+ pages each): Light-Blue-Pillow Tower (2014), The Enormous Boiling Mouths of the Sun(2016), THE THERSHOLD, THE SAND: Complete Poems of Edmond Jabès(one of two translators, 2019), Selected Poems of Tim Lilburn(2021), Vladimír Holan:A Night with Hamlet (formed by 2 books: the translation of Holan’s book-length poem and long research essay Orphic Poets by Zhao Si, 2022), two poetry books of Ted Hughes: Crow(2023), Season Songs(2023). Zhao Si's academic article based on her doctoral dissertation, dedicated to modern poetry and the perfection of its translation ("Modern Poetry: Translatability and its Perfection"), presents her as a significant theorist of poetry. She is the recipient of several awards, including: "2014 Major Support Project" of China Writers Association, "A Mai Ni" Poetry Prize (2023), Polish Jerzego Sulimy- Kaminskiego Literature Medal (2020) and Alfred Kowalkowski Translation Medal (2023). She is the vice-president of European Medal of Poetry and Art- HOMER and the chief editor of “Homer Medal Laureates Series”. She lives in Beijing.