Ouyang Yu is a contemporary Chinese

Chinese people

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-Australian author

Author

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, translator and academic.

Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University

La Trobe University

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 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

Christina Stead

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, Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert

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, Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

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 and
David Malouf

David Malouf

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 among others. He also edits Otherland, which is a bilingual English

English language

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-Chinese

Chinese language

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literary journal.

External links

• Ouyang Yu homepage
• Invading Australia: a Sequence at cordite.org.au
• Nine poems at Jacket Magazine
• Poems at Poetry International Web
• 3 poems at Blackmail Press