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Chu Tʻien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; born 24 August 1956) is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature .
Notes of a Desolate Man (Chinese: 荒人手記; pinyin: Huāng rén shǒujì) is a 1994 queer postmodern novel by Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-wen (朱天文). It is one of Chu's most well-known works and won the first China Times Million (Taiwan) Dollar Literary Prize in 1994.
Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; pinyin: Zhū Tiānwén; born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man 荒人手記 (1994).
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Jan 1, 2001 · 215 ratings24 reviews. Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.
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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.
Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the...
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SIDELIGHTS: Chu Tien-wen "is a current star in contemporary Chinese fiction from Taiwan, her prose associated with decadent and fin-de-siècle syndromes by her book titles, themes, and a style that appeals to all the senses," observed Jeffrey C. Kinkley in World Literature Today.
