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.

Recognition and awards

In 2015 Ouyang was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize, 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.

Poetry

Novels

Non-fiction