Ouyang Yu

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

 * 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
 * Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra, 2020) ISBN 9781760419516

Novels

 * 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)
 * Diary of a naked Official (Transit Lounge, 2014)

Non-fiction

 * On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Speaking English, Thinking Chinese and Living Australian (Wakefield Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-86254-765-0
 * Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988 (Cambria Press, 2008) ISBN 9781604975161
 * "You in the I": The Chinese-Australian writer Ouyang Yu speaks to Prem Poddar, Beyond the Yellow Pale: Essays and Criticism, (Otherland Publishing, 2010)