Ouyang Yu
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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.[2]
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.[2]
He also edits (or edited) Otherland, a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.[2]
Yu's poem "New Accents" is one of the prescribed texts in Module A of the HSC subject, English Standard.
Recognition and awards
In 2015 Ouyang was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize,[3]
In 2019 his poem "New Accents" was included as a prescribed text for English Standard.
In 2021 he won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection at the Queensland Literary Awards for Terminally Poetic.[4]
Also in 2021, he was a finalist for the Writer's Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.[5]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Moon Over Melbourne and other Poems (Papyrus Publishing, 1995) Template:ISBN
- Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (Wild Peony, 1997) Template:ISBN
- Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes (University of Hawaii, 2002) Template:ISBN
- New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2004) Template:ISBN
- Listening To (Vagabond Press, 2006)
- Reality Dreams (Picaro Press, 2008)
- The Kingsbury Tales (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2008)
- Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra, 2020) Template:ISBN
Novels
- Fen nu de Wu Zili (Otherland, 1999)
- The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) Template:ISBN
- The English Class (Transit Lounge, 2010)
- Loose: A Wild History (Wakefield Press, 2011)
- Diary of a Naked Official (Transit Lounge, 2014)
- A Lonely Night Boat (Liehairen, 2016)
- Billy Sing: A Novel (Transit Lounge, 2017)
- Ta : yibu guanyu xiaoshuo de xiaoshuo (Showwe Publishing, 2017)
- Lüse : Vol I (Showwe Publishing, 2018)
- Lüse : Vol II (Showwe Publishing, 2019)
- All the Rivers Run South (Puncher and Wattmann, 2023)
Selected non-fiction
- On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (Wakefield Press, 2008) Template:ISBN
- Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988 (Cambria Press, 2008) Template:ISBN
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- "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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