吉狄马加,1961年6月生于四川省凉山州,彝族。毕业于西南民族大学中文系。现任中国作家协会副主席、书记处书记,十三届全国人大常委会委员。他是中国当代最具代表性的诗人之一,同时也是一位具有广泛影响的国际性诗人,其诗歌作品已被翻译成近40种文字,在世界几十个国家出版了80余种版本的翻译诗集。
著有诗集《初恋的歌》、《鹰翅与太阳》、《身份》、《火焰与词语》、《我,雪豹……》、《从雪豹到马雅可夫斯基》、《献给妈妈的二十首十四行诗》、《吉狄马加的诗》、《大河》(多语种长诗)等。曾获中国第三届新诗(诗集)奖、郭沫若文学奖荣誉奖、庄重文文学奖、肖洛霍夫文学纪念奖、柔刚诗歌荣誉奖、国际华人诗人笔会中国诗魂奖、南非姆基瓦人道主义奖、欧洲诗歌与艺术荷马奖、罗马尼亚《当代人》杂志卓越诗歌奖、布加勒斯特城市诗歌奖、波兰雅尼茨基文学奖、英国剑桥大学国王学院银柳叶诗歌终身成就奖、波兰塔德乌什·米钦斯基表现主义凤凰奖、齐格蒙特·克拉辛斯基奖章。
他先后创办了青海湖国际诗歌节、青海国际诗人帐篷圆桌会议、凉山西昌邛海国际诗歌周以及成都国际诗歌周。
Gidi Majia, born in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in June 1961, is a Yi nationality. Graduated from the Chinese Department of Southwest University for Nationalities. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, Secretary of the Secretariat, and member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress. He is one of the most representative poets in contemporary China and an international poet with wide influence. His poems have been translated into nearly 40 languages and published in more than 80 versions in dozens of countries around the world Translated poetry.
Author of poems "The Song of First Love", "Eagle Wings and the Sun", "Identity", "Flames and Words", "I, Snow Leopard ...", "From Snow Leopard to Mayakovsky", "To Mother "Twenty Four Sonnets", "Gidimajia's Poems", "Dahe" (long poem in multiple languages), etc. Won the 3rd China New Poetry (Collection of Poems) Award, Guo Moruo Literature Award Honorary Award, Zhuang Zhongwen Literature Award, Sholokhov Literature Commemorative Award, Rougang Poetry Honor Award, International Chinese Poet Pen Association Chinese Poetry Soul Award, South Africa Mkiwa Humanitarian Award, Homer Award for European Poetry and Art, Romanian Contemporary Contemporary Poetry Award, Bucharest City Poetry Award, Poland Yanitsky Prize for Literature, Silver Willow Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award, King's College, Cambridge University, Poland Tower Deusz Mchinsky Expressionism Phoenix Award, Sigmund Krasinski Medal.
He has successively founded the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, the Qinghai International Poet Tent Roundtable, the Liangshan Xichang Qionghai International Poetry Week and the Chengdu International Poetry Week.