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TSERING WOESER A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2013 SAKHAROV PRIZE TSERING WOESER IS A POET, BLOGGER, DISSIDENT WRITER AND CULTURAL HISTORIAN BASED IN BEIJING WHO PROVIDES A UNIQUE WINDOW INTO THE COMPLEX REALITIES OF TIBET Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan activist, blogger, give her a passport, she sued the authorities. poet and essayist based in Beijing, in the Woeser is the author of a book, Notes on Tibet People’s Republic of China. She was born in (西藏笔记Xīzàng B"jì). According to the Tibet Lhasa but when she was a small child, her Information Network, the government banned family relocated to the Kham area of western the book in September 2003. She has also Sichuan province. written many other poems and books, such as Tibet’s True Heart. Selected Poems and In 1988, she graduated from Southwest Unlocking Tibet: A Chinese Author’s Perspective University for Nationalities in Chengdu with on Tibet Issue, written together with her a degree in Chinese literature. She worked husband Wang Lixiong. as a reporter in Kardzé and later in Lhasa and has lived in Beijing since 2004 as a result of Tsering Woeser, who has been put under political problems. Woeser is married to house arrest on several occasions, is post- Wang Lixiong, a renowned author who ing articles and poems on her blog based frequently writes about Tibet. According to on information from her many friends and Reporters Without Borders, “Woeser is one contacts inside Tibet. She has become one of the few Tibetan authors and poets to write of the only Tibetan voices that is regularly in Chinese.” As the government refused to heard in the outside world. TSERING WOESER A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2013 SAKHAROV PRIZE AWARDS: ǩ 1RUZHJLDQ$XWKRUV8QLRQ)UHHGRP of Expression Prize (2007) ǩ )UHHGRPRIVSHHFKPHGDOE\WKH Association of Tibetan Journalists (2007) ǩ &RXUDJHLQ-RXUQDOLVP$ZDUGE\WKH International Women’s Foundation (2010) Tibetan author and blogger ǩ 3ULQFH&ODXV$ZDUG Tsering Woeser with Ai Wei Wei after receiving the Inter- ǩ ,QWHUQDWLRQDO:RPHQRI&RXUDJH$ZDUG national Women of Courage (2013) Award at the US Embassy in Beijing on May 19, 2013. Woeser’s blog in Chinese: http://woeser.middle-way.net English translations of Woeser’s blog articles: http://www.highpeakspureearth.com .

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