Julie O'yang
Julie O'yang | |
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| Born | 18 June 1968 Kunming, China |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Julie O'yang (June 18, 1968) is a Chinese-born novelist, visual artist and screenwriter based in The Netherlands.
Biography
Born during the heyday of China’s Cultural Revolution, O'yang came to Europe in the 1990s to study at the University of London. Then she studied Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and the University of Tokyo, Japan. She has published short stories, essays, articles, and poetry in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.
She publishes in Dutch, English, and Chinese. Under the name of Yuhong Gong, she published two novels, Vliegers boven Lentestad (2001, Uitgeverij Vasallucci), Tijdloos over een verre rivier (Uitgeverij Pimento/521, 2006), and Dutch translations of three novels by contemporary Chinese writers, including Wang Shuo (Spannend Spel, 1997), Yin Lichuan (Fucker, 2004), and Chun Sue (Beijing Doll, 2004).
As of 2008, she publishes under her current alias. China Noir (Uitgeverij Amstel/Houtekiet, 2008) is a political thriller that questions globalization. Her most recent English title, Butterfly, a novel,[1] has won her readership worldwide. As a painter and visual artist, O’yang has participated in group shows and performances[2] in Holland and Denmark. As a screenwriter, O'yang has been involved in various European projects for television and film, from documentaries to long feature films to historical fiction drama series as a story consultant, history consultant, writer, and co-writer.
In 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, O’yang hosted a 5-episode talk show, TV China, for Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. She talked to prominent media figures from both China and Holland.
Currently, she is working on screenplays for television productions and long features. She contributes a column to Hoje Macau[3] on contemporary China.
O'yang is teaming up with Belgian photographer Filip Naudts to write and shoot a photonovel.
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