Faranak Amidi
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1,355 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
Faranak Amidi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the fifth floor, and I'm Farnai Cammy D.
This is Wang Zibing.
A Chinese food delivery writer in his fifties.
He's also a poet.
Wang has found a huge online following in China and beyond with his reflective poems capturing his daily life.
Now he's won one of China's top literary prizes.
After growing up poor and doing many different jobs, Wang became a food delivery writer in twenty nineteen.
He often scribbles poems on scraps of paper between deliveries, but the prize he's won is named after poet Lu Shun, seen by many as the father of Chinese literature.
Ko Yu from the BBC's Hong Kong Bureau came into the fifth floor studio to tell us his story.
And that was during the COVID breakout, yeah.
Tell me about his poetry.
What is his poetry about and what inspires him?
So can you tell us a little bit more about the story behind this poem?
So Koyu, can you tell me, who do you think his poetry resonates with in China?
Mm-hmm.
And tell me more about this prize.
What would it mean for him?
What w what would the prize do for him?
Do you know if he wants to continue the food delivery or not?
Yeah.
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