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)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "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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