List of Taiwanese authors
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Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
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- Bai Xianyong: see Pai Hsien-yungPai Hsien-yungKenneth Hsien-yung Pai , born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War...
- Bo YangBo YangThis article is about the Chinese writer. His name in Western languages is homonymic with Bó Yáng .Boyang , also sometimes called Baiyang, was a Chinese language writer based in Taiwan...
柏楊 - Chang, BelindaBelinda ChangBelinda Chang is a Chinese-language author from Taiwan. She graduated from National Taiwan University's Chinese department, and went on to earn a master's degree in performance culture from New York University...
章緣 (Zhang Yuan) - Cai SufenCai SufenCai Sufen is a Taiwanese novelist, working for the Liberty Times. Her best known books, The Child of Salt Pan and The Olive Tree, describe the life and development of a mother and her daughter. The Olive Tree, after being featured on Long-Si Ho's Book of the Month Club, became a...
蔡素芬 - Chen RuoxiChen RuoxiChen Ruoxi , born 1938, is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai wenxue .- Mayor Yin :...
陳若曦 (Chen Jo-hsi) - Chen YingzhenChen YingzhenChen Yingzhen , born 1936, is a Taiwanese author. Since the 1980s, he has been viewed by many as "Taiwan's greatest author", according to Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Chen is also notable for serving a prison sentence for "subversive activity" between 1968 and 1973...
陳映真 - Cheng Ching-wen: see Zheng Qingwen
- Chou Meng-tiehChou Meng-tiehChou Meng-tieh is a Taiwanese poet and writer. He was born in Xichuan County of Henan Province, Republic of China. He currently lives in Tamsui District, New Taipei City.-Timeline:...
周夢蝶 - Chu Hsi-ningChu Hsi-ningChu Hsi-ning was born in Linqu, Shandong. In 1945, he entered an art college in Hangzhou, but dropped out to join the nationalist army in the struggle against the communists. He reached the rank of colonel. He was one of the soldiers who accompanied Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan in 1949...
朱西甯 - Chu Tien-wenChu Tien-wenChu Tien-wen is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" and Notes of a Desolate Man 荒人手記 . She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou...
朱天文 - Chung Chao-chengChung Chao-chengChung Chao-cheng , sixth-generation Hakka writer, born and raised in Taiwan. A proponent and promoter of Taiwanese hsiang-tu literature . "We are pioneers of Taiwanese literature, a literature with unique characteristics," he once said...
鍾肇政 - Danny WenDanny WenDanny Wen is a travel and gourmet writer, public speaker, TV host and cooking instructor. Since his debut in 1992, Danny Wen has become one of the most influential and prolific Chinese travel writers. Combined with his superior artistic abilities as a photographer and graphic artist, he is able to...
溫士凱 - Huang FanHuang FanHuang Fan is a contemporary Taiwanese writer, born in 1950.He grew up in a family dependents community, like many people from Mainland China who arrived with Chiang Kai-shek in 1949. His educational background is in engineering...
黃凡 - Huang ChunmingHuang ChunmingHuang Chunming is a Taiwanese literary figure and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and many of his short stories have been turned into films, including The Sandwich Man .-Career:Born in Ilan, Taiwan, Huang began his higher...
黃春明 (Hwang Chun-ming) - Jiang GuiJiang GuiJiang Gui 姜貴, also Chiang Kuei, was a Chinese novelist active in Taiwan.-Life and work:Jiang Gui was born in mainland China. As a young man, he was influenced by the May Fourth Movement and joined the Kuomintang at age 18 in Guangzhou. He married at age 29, and attended college in Beijing...
姜貴 (Chiang Kuei) - Lai HeLai HeLai He was a poet who was born in Changhua, Taiwan. He was a medical doctor but had enormous fame in literature. His poetry works were especially praised, and Lai was commonly known as one of Taiwan's most representative poets.-Early life:Lai's work can broadly be divided into three phases...
賴和 - Li Ang 李昂
- Li AoLi AoLi Ao , is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China .He is considered by many to be one of the most important modern Chinese essayists today, although critics have termed him an intellectual narcissist...
李敖 - Li LiLi LiLi Li may refer to:*Li Li , Chinese badminton player*Li Li , fictional character in the Water Margin*Muzi Mei , real name Li Li, Chinese blogger*Li Li , Chinese artistic gymnast...
李黎 - Lin HaiyinLin HaiyinLin Haiyin was a Taiwanese writer of Han Chinese ethnicity. She is best remembered for her 1960 memoir 城南舊事 , a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing.Born in Osaka, Japan, where her father worked as a merchant, Lin's parents moved first to...
林海音 - Lin HuaiminLin Hwai-minLin Hwai-min is a Taiwanese dancer, writer, choreographer, and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. He was educated at National Chengchi University in Taiwan and University of Iowa in the US....
林懷民 - Lung Ying-taiLung Ying-taiLung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili'....
龍應台 - Ma SenMa SenMa Sen , Taiwanese writer, born 1932 in Shandong province.Ma Sen is a literary critic, a writer of fiction, and a playwright. He studied film and drama in France starting in 1961, later studying Sociology at the University of British Columbia...
馬森 - Nie Hualing 聶華苓
- Ouyang TzuOuyang TzuOuyang Tzu is the penname of Hong Zhihui , a female Taiwanese writer...
歐陽子 - Pai Hsien-yungPai Hsien-yungKenneth Hsien-yung Pai , born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War...
白先勇 - Ping LuPing LuLu Ping , born in Kaohsiung in 1953, writes under the pen name "Ping Lu." Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural...
平路 - Qiong Yao 瓊瑤
- Qiu MiaojinQiu MiaojinQiu Miaojin was a lesbian author from Changhua, Taiwan.She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School, and the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University. Later she worked at The Journalist as a reporter...
邱妙津 (Chiu Miao-chin) - San MaoSanmao (author)Sanmao , literally "three hairs" though it is not considered to have a meaning, was the pseudonym of the popular Taiwanese author Chen Ping . She adopted her pseudonym from the acclaimed caricaturist Zhang Leping's most famous work "Sanmao", which tells the story of a Shanghai street child named...
三毛 - Wang TuohWang TuohWang Tuoh is a Taiwanese writer, intellectual, literary critic and politician. He was born in Badouzi , then a small fishing village near the northern port city of Keelung...
王拓 - Wang WenhuaWang WenhuaWang Wenhua , also known as Tom Wang is a contemporary Taiwanese novelist and columnist. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, and obtained an MBA from Stanford University. He is the author of Protein Girls and 61 vs 57...
王文華 - Wang WenxingWang WenxingWang Wenxing was born in Fuzhou, Fujian in 1939 and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained his B.A. in Foreign Languages & Literature from the National Taiwan University and received an MFA from the University of Iowa...
王文興 - Wang ZhenheWang ZhenheWang Zhenhe is one of Taiwan's most famous writers. Wang's masterpiece is the comic novel Rose, Rose, I Love you, which is set in the coastal town of Hualien during the Vietnam War. The novel's plot centers on the efforts of the town's leaders to come together to set up a brothel to entertain a...
王禎和 (Wang Zhen-ho) - Wu ZhuoliuWu ZhuoliuWu Chuo-liu was an influential Taiwanese journalist and novelist. His experiences during the colonial period, including fifteen months spent on the mainland, served as an inspiration for his most famous work, Orphan of Asia, a semi-autobiographical account of the experiences of a fictional...
吳濁流 (Wu Chuo-liu) - Xi MurongXi MurongXi MuRong is a writer and painter originally from China. She is most famous for her poetry, especially the collections Qi li xiang and Wuyuan de qingchun .-Personal life:...
- Yang KuiYang KuiYang Kui 楊逵 was a prominent writer in Taiwan's Japanese colonial period. Raised in Japanese-language schools, he went to the Japanese mainland, where he experienced both persecution and acceptance, especially by Japanese communists. Under these influences he became a proletarian novelist...
楊逵 (Yang K'uei) - Ye Shitao 葉石濤 (Yeh Shih-tao)
- Yu GuangzhongYu GuangzhongYu Guangzhong is a modern Taiwanese writer, poet, educator, and critic. He was born in Nanjing, China but forced to flee with his family owing to the Japanese Army's invasion during World War II. After returning to Nanjing many years later, he again was forced to flee on account of the Communist...
余光中 - Yu LihuaYu LihuaYu Lihua is a Taiwanese woman writer.Yu Lihua was born in Shanghai and went to university in Taiwan, taking history at National Taiwan University...
于梨華 - Yuan QiongqiongYuan QiongqiongYuan Ch'iung-ch'iung is a Taiwanese writer. Yuan wrote poetry, fiction, essays, screenplays and television scripts during the Boudoir literature period for women...
袁瓊瓊 - Zhang DachunZhang DachunZhang Dachun is a notable Taiwanese author and literary critic. He is the author of many novels, two of which, Wild Child and My Kid Sister , were published together in the U.S. as Wild Kids.-Educational background:...
張大春 - Zhang XiguoZhang XiguoShi-kuo Chang is an internationally renowned computer scientist and writer famous for his science fiction writing. Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from National Taiwan University, he first came to the United States in 1966 as a student at University of...
張系國 (Chang Hsi-kuo) - Zhang YingtaiZhang YingtaiZhang Yingtai is a Taiwanese writer.Her most famous works are "Hunting the Oroqen" , a short story about a researcher of Oroqen culture, and the short story collection Tibetan Lover .Zhang received a doctorate in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University.-References:...
張瀛太 - Zheng QingwenZheng QingwenCheng Ch'ing-wen , born September 16, 1932, is a Taiwanese writer and a graduate of National Taiwan University. He worked at the government-run Hua Nan Bank for forty years. His works in English are generally under the transliteration Cheng Ch'ing-Wen and that is how he is described in many...
鄭清文 (Cheng Ching-wen) - Zhong Zhaozheng: see Chung Chao-chung
- Zhu Tianwen: see Chu Tien-wen
- Zhu Tianxin: see Chu Tien-hsin
- Zhu Xining: see Chu Hsi-ning
See also
- List of Taiwanese people
- Literature of TaiwanLiterature of TaiwanTaiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese, which can use any language ever used generally in Taiwan, like Japanese, Taiwanese, Taiwanese Mandarin.- Novels, short stories, and poetry :...
- National Museum of Taiwanese LiteratureNational Museum of Taiwanese LiteratureThe National Museum of Taiwan Literature is a museum located in Tainan City, Taiwan. It opened in 2003. The museum researches, catalogs, preserves, and exhibits literary artifacts...
- Culture of TaiwanCulture of TaiwanThe culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucianist Han Chinese, Japanese, European, American, global, local, and Taiwanese aborigines cultures, which are often perceived in both traditional and modern understandings...
External links
- Contemporary Authors Full-Text & Image System 當代文學史料影像全文系統 (in Chinese characters)
- Mimesis and Motivation in Taiwan Colonial Fiction
- National Museum of Taiwanese Literature
- On-line Alliance of Taiwan's Modern Poetry 臺灣現代詩網路聯盟 (in Chinese characters)
- Taiwan Fiction in Translation
- Taiwanese Literature (gio.gov.tw)
- Taiwan Literature - English Translation Series (journal)
- Taiwan Xiangtu (Hsiangtu) Wenxue (Taiwan Nativist Literature): the Sojourner-Narrator
- UCSB Taiwanese Literature Database