Walis Nokan
Walis Nokan (born 22 August 1961) is an indigenous Pai-Peinox-Tayal writer from M'ihu community in Taiwan. Walis began his writing career under the pen names such as Wu Chun-chieh (
Walis Nokan has received multiple literary awards and significantly contributed to indigenous literature. He founded the magazines the Aboriginal News (
Activities[edit]
Walis began his writing career under his Chinese name Wu Chun-chieh while he was a student, reflecting a period of political tension in Taiwan and surrealism characteristic of Taiwanese modernist literature in the 1970s with his poetry and essays. He was later influenced by the poetry of Wu Sheng, which changed his perspective on modern poetry and motivated him to pay more attention to the lives of the underprivileged.[5] No. 3 of Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series (1998), a special issue dedicated to Taiwanese Indigenous literature, includes two of his poems. English translations of his poems can also be found in various anthologies, such as Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (2001), Mercury Rising: Featuring Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan (2003), Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Companion to Taiwan (2005). A Son of Taiwanese: Stories of Government Atrocities (2021), an anthology co-edited by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin, includes three of Walis Nokan’s short stories depicting how Indigenous people of Taiwan were mistreated during the White Terror period.
In 1985, Walis Nokan was exposed to Taiwanese socialism and began to document his community.[5] Subsequently, he began to comment on the media under his indigenous name (misspelled as Walis Yukan), advocating for the voices of the marginalized. Some of these writings were collected in The Knife Drawn (
References[edit]
- ^ National Chengchi University Indigenous Research Center (2014).
原住民 族 語 中級 教材 閱讀書寫 篇 (中 ) [Indigenous Language Intermediate Textbook: Reading and Writing (Part II)] (1st ed.). Council of Indigenous Peoples, Ministry of Education. p. 27. - ^ Hsiung, Kuei-lan (2013). Atayal Balai--
真正 的 泰 雅人 :瓦 歷 斯.諾 幹 的 文學 獵場 [Atayal Balai: The True Atayal People - The Literary Quest of Walis Nokan]. Fo Guang University. p. 58. - ^ "The Walis Nokan Archive". enwalisnokan.nmtl.gov.tw. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ^ Pasuya, Poiconʉ (2008). "
出入 創作 與 論述 之 間 的 原住民 文學 健筆 :瓦 歷 斯•諾 幹 " [The Indigenous Literature Pen between Creation and Discourse: Walis Nokan]. Taiwan Indigenous Studies Review (3): 31. - ^ a b Liao, Wan-ju (2007).
祖 靈的 凝視 :瓦 歷 斯.諾 幹 的 作品 研究 [The Gaze of Ancestral Spirits: A Study of Walis Nokan's Works]. National Chengchi University. pp. 171, 187.