吉狄马加是中国最卓越的诗人之一，同时也是一位活跃于当今世界诗坛最著名的中国少数民族诗人。他的作品根植于彝民族数千年的诗歌传统，其诗歌的抒情特质纯粹、朴实、内向而精致，其几乎全部作品都在见证一个民族的精神和历史，从这里我们能感受到远古神话与当下现实所构筑的梦幻世界，以及它传递给我们每一个人的勇气和力量，这些作品诗性地呈现出了深厚真挚的人类情怀，是用彝人的古老乐器吹奏出的一曲献给他的民族和全人类的颂歌。作为诗人的吉狄马加，同时还是一位行动的并富有创造力的文化使者，由他主导创立的中国青海湖国际诗歌节、国际帐篷诗人圆桌会议、中国西昌邛海国际诗歌周等，毫无疑问已经成为了，当今中国和世界诗歌进行交流的重要窗口，有鉴于此，剑桥国王学院徐志摩诗歌节主办机构为吉狄马加颁发本年度"银柳叶诗歌终身奖"。

2017年7月29日

The Speech on Awarding Jidi Majia Lifetime Achievement Prize of 2017 Cambridge Xu Zhimo Silver Willow Leave Poetry and Art Festival

Jidi Majia, one of the most eminent poets of China, is also the most famous Chinese poet of ethnic minority who is active in contemporary world poetic circles. His works are deeply rooted in the poetic tradition of thousands of years of Yi ethnic group, and the lyric peculiarity of his poems is pure, plain, introversive and delicate. Almost all of his works witness the spirit and history of a nationality, from which we can feel the dreamscape constructed by the myth of remote antiquity and the reality at present as well as the courage and the power it passes on to everyone of us. Displaying poetically the profound, cordial human feelings, these works are an ode to his nationality and all humanity played by ancient musical instrument of Yi people. As a poet, Jidi Majia is also a creative cultural envoy of taking actions. He has played a leading role in founding Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, International Poets Tent Round-table Meeting and Xichang Qionghai International Poetry Week, and these activities have undoubtedly become important windows of poetry exchange between contemporary China and the world. In view of all the above, the Lifetime Achievement Prize of 2017 Xu Zhimo Silver Willow Leave Prize is awarded to Mr. Jidi Majia by the host of Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival.