The Tibetan Golden Antelope Poetry Prize, awarded by the organising committee of the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, was established by Jidi Majia, now one of China’s foremost poets and the chair of the China Writers Association, when he was governor of the province and first established the Qinghai festival a dozen years ago. 

The prize recognises the body of work of an international poet whose work has made a difference in their homeland and beyond it, and whose work touches on themes of justice and the preservation of the wild and the human spirit; it has been given to Syrian poet Adonis, Argentine poet Juan Hermann, Indigenous American poet Simon Ortiz, and San Franciscan beat poet Jack Hirschman.