Ouyang Yu

• Name — Ouyang Yu • Birth Name — (• Born — 1955 • Birthplace — Huangzhou, China • Occupation — Poet Ouyang Yu (born 1955) 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.

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. Yu's poem "New Accents" is one of the prescribed texts in Module A of the HSC subject, English Standard.

• Moon Over Melbourne and other Poems (Papyrus Publishing, 1995) • Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (Wild Peony, 1997) • Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes (University of Hawaii, 2002) • New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2004) • Listening To (Vagabond Press, 2006) • Reality Dreams (Picaro Press, 2008) • The Kingsbury Tales (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2008) • Terminally Poetic (Ginninderra, 2020)

• Fen nu de Wu Zili (Otherland, 1999) • The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002) • The English Class (Transit Lounge, 2010) • Loose: A Wild History (Wakefield Press, 2011) • Diary of a Naked Official (Transit Lounge, 2014) • A Lonely Night Boat (Liehairen, 2016) • Billy Sing: A Novel (Transit Lounge, 2017) • Ta: yibu guanyu xiaoshuo de xiaoshuo (Showwe Publishing, 2017) • Lüse: Vol I (Showwe Publishing, 2018) • Lüse: Vol II (Showwe Publishing, 2019) • All the Rivers Run South (Puncher and Wattmann, 2023)

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