- Huang Chunming
Huang Chunming (黃春明, also Hwang Chun-ming), born in
Ilan ,Taiwan in 1939, is an influential Taiwanese writer and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and many of his short stories have been turned into films, including "The Sandwich Man" (1983).Career
Huang began his higher education career at a college in
Taipei but, after a series of transfers, ended up graduating fromNational Pingtung University of Education in southern Taiwan. He is a writer of broad interests and remarkable versatility, but he is first of all ashort story writer. During the 1960s as a major contributor to the influential "Literature Quarterly", Huang was hailed as a representative of "hsiang-t'u wen-hsueh", the "nativist literature movement" that focused on the lives of ruralTaiwanese people . In more recent works he has turned his attention to urban culture and life in Taiwan's growing cities.Translations into English
* "The Drowning of an Old Cat and Other Stories", (Howard Goldblatt trans.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
* "The Taste of Apples", (Howard Goldblatt trans). New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.External links
* [http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2007/gsh4969/eright01-2.htm Interview with Huang]
* [http://nacrp.cic.sfu.ca/nacrp/articles/haddon1990/haddontext.html Taiwan "xiangtu wenxue": the sojourner-narrator]
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