Ouyang Yu

Ouyang Yu was born in Hubei Province, China. He has a BA in American and English Literature and an MA in English and Australian literature. He has written a PhD thesis on representations of the Chinese in Australian fiction at La Trobe University. He taught English at Wuhan University before he came to Australia in 1991. His poetry has been published extensively and includes the two collections, Moon over Melbourne and Songs of the Last Chinese Poet. His work is often described as angry or cynical, addressing the bitterness and alienation of mainland Chinese immigrants to Australia. In addition to his creative work, Ouyang has translated many texts into Chinese (including Germaine Greer's The Whole Woman and, most recently, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia), and edits the Chinese literary journal, Otherland. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University (1999-2001; and was a Deakin University fellow in 2003). In October 2003, Ouyang's self-published hand-made collection of English poetry, Foreign Matter, received the Award for Self-published Books in the category of poetry in Fastbooks Self-publishing Competition at the 4th Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow. In 2004, Ouyang won the Festival Awards for Literature (SA), Award for Innovation in Writing for The Eastern Slope Chronicle.

Foreign Matter. Otherland, 2003.
Two Hearts, Two Tongues, and Rain-Coloured Eyes. Wild Peony, 2002.
The Eastern Slope Chronicle. Brandl and Schlesinger, 2002.
Moerben Zhi Xia (The Summer of Melbourne). Chongqing chu ban she, 1998.
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet. Wild Peony, 1997.
Moon over Melbourne and Other Poems. Papyrus, 1995.

Edited:

Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia. Asia Institute, Monash University, 1995.

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