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By October 2021, Ouyang Yu will have published 137 books in both English and Chinese in the field of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary translation and criticism. His second book of English poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, was shortlisted for the 1999 NSW Premier’s Literary Award.

His third novel, The English Class, won the 2011 NSW Premier’s Award, and his translation in Chinese of The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes won the Translation Award from the Australia-China Council in 2014. Ouyang Yu won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards.

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Thousands of Sails - Launching Australian Poetry

Ouyang Yu, Dagmar Leupold, Yvette Holt

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15 Feb

Aural Events: Best of Australian Poetry

Sara M Saleh, John Kinsella, Dženana Vucic, Yeena Kirkbright, Jill Jones, Rico Craig, Ouyang Yu, Judith Crispin, Shastra Deo, Manisha Anjali, Ellen van Neerven, Toby Fitch

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10 Nov
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