Ouyang Yu

press release:

The Asian American Studies Program, UW-Madison presents Two Events with Poet, Novelist, and Translator

OUYANG YU

Tuesday, April 19

Poetry and Translation: A Brown Bag Discussion

12-1:30 pm, 340 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr.

Reading

7 pm, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Room 121*

(*room subject to change—check at venue upon arrival)

Ouyang Yu moved to Australia in early 1991 and, by 2016, has published 80 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in English and Chinese. He edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Motherland.  Ouyang’s poetry has been included in the Best Australian poetry collections nine times from 2004 to 2013, as well as in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2009), The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2010) and The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry (2014).  He has to date published 5 English novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002), The English Class (2010), Loose: A Wild History (2011), Diary of a Naked Official (2014) and Billy Sing (forthcoming in 2017), and 2 Chinese novels, The Angry Wu Zili (1999) and Land of Gold-diggers (2014). He is now the ‘Siyuan Scholar’ and professor of English at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China.

These events are free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature.

For additional information, please contact Prof. Timothy Yu at tpyu@wisc.edu or the Asian American Studies Program at asianamerican@letsci.wisc.edu.