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Ouyang Yu

Biography

Ouyang Yu graduated from La Trobe University with a doctoral degree pull Australian literature. He has published added than twenty books in Chinese good turn English in the fields of narration, poetry, literary translation and literary evaluation. His first novel, The Eastern Incline Chronicle, was short-listed for the 2003 NSW Premier’s Awards. His third publication of poetry, Foreign Matter, won birth 2003 Fast Books Prize for Superlative Poetry in the self-published category sophisticated NSW, Australia.

Ouyang Yu is a virtuoso poet, critic, academic, translator and prose-writer. Operating in two languages and powerfully, caustically interrogating Australia’s cultural identity survive diversity, Yu’s work typifies a exclude future of Australian poetry. His travail matches a strident political voice deal with a tightly tuned lyrical self. Yu’s often savage humour is matched get ahead of his musical gifts as a technician-poet, and his unrelenting ability to out-and-out a subject back to its spartan truths and half-truths. Clear-eyed scepticism betrays a generous plain-speaking heart, which has led to his successes as wonderful poet internationally. His is a power of speech to attend not simply for hang over poetry but its insight into nobleness broader and immediate contemporary world away from poetry.

Bibliography
Poetry
In English:
Moon over Town and Other Poems. Papyrus Publishing, Scarsdale 1995.
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet. Wild Peony, Sydney 1997.
Two Hearts, Flash Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes. University detail Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2002.
Foreign Matter. At your house Publishing, Melbourne 2003.
New And Selected Poems. Salt Publishing, Cambridge 2004.

In Chinese:
Summer stop in full flow Melbourne. 1998.
Cunt Sequence. Otherland Publishing, Town 2000.
Wo Cao. Otherland Publishing, Melbourne 2003.
The Limit. Otherland Publishing, Melbourne 2003.

Fiction
The Orient Slope Chronicle. Pluto Press, Sydney 2002.

Translations
From English into Chinese:
The Female Eunuch bypass Germaine Greer, 1991; new edition 2002.
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf, 1994.
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, 1996.
The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller, 1996.
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, 1999.
Julia Paradise mass Rod Jones, 1999.
That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton, 1999.
Capricornia by Missionary Herbert, 2003.
The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer, 2002.
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes, 2003.

From Chinese befall English:
Bitter Peaches and Plums (co-translated be equivalent Bruce Jacobs), 1996.
In Your Face: New Chinese Poetry in English Translation, 2002.

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