Ouyang Yu


Ouyang Yu is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.
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. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize.