Ouyang Yu

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Ouyang Yu (b. 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.

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 a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

• Moon Over Melbourne (Papyrus, 1995) ISBN 0-907562-85-X
• 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

Novel

• The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) ISBN 1-876040-42-4

[edit] External links

• Ouyang Yu homepage
• Invading Australia: a Sequence at cordite.org.au
• Nine poems at Jacket Magazine
• Poems at Poetry International Web
• 3 poems at Blackmail Press

[edit] References

• Ouyang Yu at Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory