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.[1]
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.[1]
He also edits (or edited) Otherland, a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.[1]
Recognition and awards
In 2015 Ouyang was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize,[2]
In 2021 he won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection at the Queensland Literary Awards for Terminally Poetic.[3]
Also in 2021, he was a finalist for the Writer's Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.[4]
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
- Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra, 2020) ISBN 9781760419516
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
- Invading Australia: a Sequence at cordite.org.au
- Nine poems at Jacket Magazine
- Poems at Poetry International Web
- 3 poems at Blackmail Press
References
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