Ouyang Yu (; 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.
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.
He also edits (or edited) Otherland, a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.
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,
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.
Also in 2021, he was a finalist for the Writer's Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Bibliography
Poetry Moon Over Melbourne and other Poems (Papyrus Publishing, 1995) Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (Wild Peony, 1997) Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes (University of Hawaii, 2002) New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2004) Listening To (Vagabond Press, 2006) Reality Dreams (Picaro Press, 2008) The Kingsbury Tales (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2008) Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra, 2020)
Novels Fen nu de Wu Zili (Otherland, 1999) The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) 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) Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988 (Cambria Press, 2008)
"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
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