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Chinese-Australian writer and translator

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ouyang.

Ouyang Yu (Chinese: 歐陽昱; born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese Australian author, translator and academic.

Early life and education

Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University, which he completed in 1995.

Career

Ouyang's literary output has been prodigious. Apart from several collections of poetry and a novel he has translated authors as diverse as Christina Stead, Xavier Herbert, Germaine Greer, and David Malouf.

He also edits (or edited) Otherland, a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.

Recognition and awards

In 2015 Ouyang was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize,

In 2021 he won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection at the Queensland Literary Awards for Terminally Poetic.

Also in 2021, he was a finalist for the Writer's Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

Bibliography

Poetry

Novels

  • The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) ISBN 1-876040-42-4
  • The English Class (Transit Lounge, 2010)
  • Loose: A Wild History (Wakefield Press, 2011)
  • Diary of a naked Official (Transit Lounge, 2014)

Non-fiction

  • On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (Wakefield Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-86254-765-0
  • Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988 (Cambria Press, 2008) ISBN 9781604975161
  • "You in the I": The Chinese-Australian writer Ouyang Yu speaks to Prem Poddar, Beyond the Yellow Pale: Essays and Criticism, (Otherland Publishing, 2010)

External links

References

  1. ^ "Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory - O". Thylazine Foundation. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
  2. "New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards" (PDF). SL Magazine. Vol. 8, no. 4. Summer 2015. p. 36.
  3. "Winners announced for 2021 Queensland Literary Awards". Queensland Government: Ministerial Media Statements. 9 September 2021. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  4. "Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced". Books+Publishing. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.


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