Ouyang Yu

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

Life
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, which is a bilingual English-Chinese literary journal.

Poetry

 * Moon Over Melbourne and other Poems  (Papyrus Publishing, 1995) ISBN 1-875934-04-9
 * 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

Fiction

 * The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) ISBN 1-876040-42-4
 * The English Class (Transit Lounge, 2010)
 * Loose: A Wild History (Wakefield Press, 2011)

Non-fiction

 * On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (Wakefield Press, 2008) ISBN 9781862547650
 * ‘You in the I’: The Chinese-Australian writer Ouyang Yu speaks to Prem Poddar, Beyond the Yellow Pale: Essays and Criticism, (Otherland Publishing, 2010)