Ahronglong Sakinu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ahronglong Sakinu

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1972

Place of Birth: Taitung County, Taiwan Province

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ahronglong Sakinu (Chinese: ???.???; Pinayuanan: Sakinu Yalonglong; born 28 January 1972) is a Taiwanese indigenous Paiwan writer and forest hunter.
His name means "The Last Hunter" in Lalaulan.
His Chinese name is Dai Zhiqiang (Chinese: ???).
He was born to the Paiwan Lalaulan clan in Taitung, Taiwan, on 28 January 1972.
His father was a laborer and often abusive toward Ahronglong Sakinu and his two brothers.
The abuse forced his mother out of the house, and Ahronglong Sakinu often ran away.
He was trained as a police officer, and found law enforcement work in Taipei.
He later became a forest ranger.He gained recognition from his book The Sage Hunter (??.??.???), winning the 2000 Wu Yung-fu Literature Prize (??????).
The book, written in 1998, was adapted into a film and released in 2005.
His work has been translated into English and Japanese, and also made into cartoons.
In November 2005, he founded a hunter school to educate and introduce youngsters to Paiwan culture and traditional Paiwan skills.