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

Novels

Non-fiction

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c "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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