- Ouyang Yu
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Ouyang Yu (born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.[1]
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. Since then his 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 among others. He also edits Otherland, which is a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Moon Over Melbourne and other Poems (Papyrus Publishing, 1995) ISBN 1-875934-04-9
- Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (Wild Peony, 1997) ISBN 0-9586526-4-3
- Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes (University of Hawaii, 2002) ISBN 1-876957-02-6
- New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2004) ISBN 1-876857-35-8
Novel
- 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)
Non-fiction
- On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (Wakefield Press, 2008) ISBN 9781862547650
- ‘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
- Ouyang Yu homepage
- Invading Australia: a Sequence at cordite.org.au
- Nine poems at Jacket Magazine
- Poems at Poetry International Web
- 3 poems at Blackmail Press
References
- ^ "Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory - O". Thylazine Foundation. n. d.. Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20070311092858/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directo/. Retrieved 2007-06-27.
Categories:- 1955 births
- Australian novelists
- Australian poets
- Living people
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