廖亦武（1958年－）出生于中国四川省盐亭，为中国有名的诗人、异议人士与底层研究者。
1966年文化大革命发生后，父亲因为教陶铸的著作《松树的风格》教的很好而成为批判对象；由于父亲与母亲都成为专政对象，使得廖亦武一度成为流浪儿，靠打零工过日，而这段期间廖亦武由于阅读有关高尔基著作的画册，而逐渐倾向文学。
1970年代廖亦武回到学校读书，但在1976年由于书写反动诗歌而遭到学校严厉警告，而且在同年4月5日因为散发传单《请不要相信他们》而被捕。1977年到1980年廖亦武四次投考大学都未能录取，1988年虽然进入武汉大学作家班，但是不久后仍被开除。
1982年廖亦武开始发表诗歌，并且以《人民》《儿子们的时代》等诗篇步入文坛，1983年与周伦佑等人开始发表地下刊物与民间刊物，而成为中国公安的对象。1983年到1988年发表《死城》《黄河》等诗而成为新诗潮代表人物之一，但也成为反精神污染的批判对象。
1989年六四天安门事件时，廖亦武发表诗作《大屠杀》并且筹划诗歌电影《安魂》，而被逮捕，判处有期徒刑四年。1994年1月31日由于国际人权团体关注之下而提前46天出狱，出狱后除发表诗歌外也多次参与有关人权、改革的运动，也因此屡次被公安抄家，文稿也屡次被抄走。
1999年廖亦武发表《沉沦的圣殿》，书中对于西单民主墙与魏京生等多有着墨，虽然这本书得到不少学者专家的好评，但是这本书却被中宣部定为年度禁书之首，出版该书的新疆青少年出版社也被整顿；同年出版《漂泊─边缘人访谈录》，随后亦被查禁。2002年廖亦武又出版《中国底层访谈录》，为《漂泊─边缘人访谈录》之增订版，结果导致中宣部的强力查禁，出版该书的长江文艺出版社被整顿，推荐该书的南方周末也发生人事大地震，主编等主管都被撤换。但是《中国底层访谈录》除有地下版本之外，也在台湾与法国有海外版本出现。
2009年廖受德国柏林世界文化之家之邀，欲前往德国参加一个属于当年法兰克福书展框架活动的朗诵会。但由于大陆阻挠，未能成行[1]。
现在廖亦武主要从事中国冤狱史的研究，以及自传体小说的写作。
Liao Yiwu (Chinese: 廖亦武; also known as Lao Wei) (born 1958 in Sichuan), is an author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of the Chinese regime, for which he has been imprisoned.
Personal life
Liao was born in 1958, the same year as The Great Leap Forward. During the famine of The Great Leap Forward, he suffered from oedema and was dying. A herbal doctor miraculously cured him by holding him over a wok containing boiling herbal water. In 1966 his father was branded a counter-revolutionary during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His parents filed for divorce to protect the children. His mother was arrested for attempting to sell government issued coupons on the black market.[1]
After High School, Liao traveled around the country. In his spare time he read banned Western poets such as John Keats and Charles Baudelaire. He also started composing his own poems and was getting published in literary magazines.[1] Upon publication of several of his works, poems, and a movie, he was arrested in February 1990 as he was boarding a train with six friends and his wife, all of whom were arrested also. Liao received a four year sentence. He was placed on the government's permanent blacklist. While in prison, due to the extreme amounts of torture and abusive punishment, he suffered several mental collapses and attempted suicide twice. He was known as "the big lunatic".[1]
[edit] Career
The Corpse Walker was his first major book released in the United States. It was published in Chinese in Taiwan as Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society. The Corpse Walker is actually only a partial collection as the original is several volumes long. In it he interviews 27 people from "hustlers to drifters, outlaws and street performers, the officially renegade and the physically handicapped, those who deal with human waste and with the wasting of humans, artists and shamans, crooks, even cannibals--."[1]
On June 3, 1989, after Chinese government tank rolled into Beijing, Liao composed a long poem entitled "Massacre." Knowing that it would never be published, he made an audiotape and recited the poem by using Chinese ritualistic chanting and howling, invoking the spirits of the dead.[1]
Liao and friends made a movie, the sequel of Massacre, "Requiem." It was after this that he was arrested.
In 1989, two magazine companies took advantage of the relaxed politics and carried Liao's long poems "The Yellow City" and "Idol." In the poems, he criticized the system, calling it paralyzed and eaten away by a collective leukemia.[1]
In 1998 he compiled "The Fall of the Holy Temple" an anthology of underground poems from the 1970s, mainly from Chinese dissidents. One of China's vice premiers called it a "premeditated attempt to overthrow the government, and is supported by powerful anti-China groups."[1]
[edit] Awards
In 2003, he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant, and in 2007, he received a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center.[2]
[edit] List of works
Books
•The Corpse Walker (2002)
•The Fall of the Holy Temple (1998)
•Report on China’s Victims of Injustice
•Testimonials
Poems
•"The Yellow City" (1989)
•"Idol" (1989)
•"Massacre" (1989)
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