Ouyang Yu

Ouyang Yu (Chinese: 歐陽昱; born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ouyang.

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. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize,[2] while 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 Melbourne Writers Prize.[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. "Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory - O". Thylazine Foundation. n.d. 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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