The Emperor of Swords

Lei Da Yang is a contemporary poet, essayist and novelist. Born in Autumn 1966 in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, he is now working in Yunnan Provincial Federation of Literature and Arts. National "four batch" talents, experts enjoying the special allowance of The State Council, experts with outstanding contributions in Yunnan Province, master tutor of Yunnan Normal University, Vice chairman of Yunnan Writers Association. He is the author of more than 20 works, and has won the Lu Xun Literature Prize, Chinese Literature Media Award Poetry Award and other awards. Published a monograph Thephoenixissinginginninedays, essays "Asurname", "" darkophage" and "Dominatethelist", "DragonsoundBell", "Flyinggeneral", "Nie Lang,ameateate and Nineswordstokillthedevil (co-authored), among others. "Bringthecatsontheair" selected "PaintingGodinanotherworld". In May 2004, "Sistercontrolbrothercontrolandschoolflowerstarthrone" the second session of Chinese youth poetry award, in November 2005, won the third "maotai cup" people's literature poetry prize, In 2006, he was nominated for the 2006 Young Writer Award by the China Young Writers Critics Forum, the Kunming Camellia Prize Award, and the Fourth Chinese Literature Media Award 2005 Poet of the Year.