Liu Yichang 劉以鬯 (pen name of Liu Tongyi 劉同繹) 1918-2018
Liu was a writer, literary editor, and the founder of Xianggang wenxue 香港文學 [Hong Kong Literary Monthly], which he edited until 2000. Born and brought up in Shanghai, Liu graduated from St. John’s University in 1941 and became a journalist in the war-time capital of Chongqing before moving to Hong Kong in 1948, where he continued his literary pursuits. Liu is admired for his innovations in fiction-writing and for having nurtured local literary talent over several decades.
Works available in English:
The Cockroach and Other Stories (ed. by D.E. Pollard). Hong Kong: Research
Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.
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