Liao Yiwu

廖亦武

Liao Yiwu, born in 1958 in Sichuan Province, is a well-known mainland Chinese author, reporter, musician, poet and human rights advocate. He has published four books, including The Corpse Walker, a collection of 27 interviews with Chinese living on the bottom rungs of society. In 2003, he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant, and in 2007, a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center. [Full Wikipedia entry].