20th-century Taiwanese short story writers

The list 20th-century Taiwanese short story writers includes Jade Yuan, Chang Show-foong, Hualing Nieh Engle, Zhang Dachun and Chen Ruoxi. The list consists of 17 members.

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Jade Yuan

Taiwanese writer

Overview: Yuan Chiung-chiung (Chinese: 袁瓊瓊; pinyin: Yuán Qióngqióng; Wade–Giles: Yüan Chʻiung-chʻiung; born 25 November 1950) is a Taiwanese writer whose family originated in Meishan, Sichuan, China ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Taiwanese women poets 3T

21st-century Taiwanese women writers 21T

20th-century Taiwanese women writers 20T
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Chang Show-foong

Taiwanese writer, environmentalist, and politician

Overview: Chang Show-foong (Chinese: 張曉風; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎofēng; born 29 March 1941) is a Taiwanese environmentalist, writer, and politician. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2012 and served until ...

Date of birth: 29 March 1941

Age: 84

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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Short story writers from Zhejiang 14T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

Taiwanese women environmentalists 4T
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Hualing Nieh Engle

Writer

Overview: Hualing Nieh Engle (11 January 1925 – 21 October 2024), née Nieh Hua-ling (Chinese: 聶華苓; pinyin: Niè Huálíng; Wade–Giles: Nieh Hua-ling), was a Chinese novelist, fiction writer, and poet. She ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1925

Date of death: 21 October 2024

Age: 99 (age at death)

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Short story writers from Hubei 4T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

American Book Award winners 456T
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Chen Ruoxi

Taiwanese author

Overview: Chen Ruoxi (Chinese: 陳若曦; pinyin: Chén Ruòxī; born 15 November 1938) is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai ...

Date of birth: 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Writers from New Taipei 5T

21st-century Taiwanese women writers 21T

20th-century Taiwanese women writers 20T
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Huang Chunming

Taiwanese writer

Overview: Huang Chun-ming (Chinese: 黃春明; born 13 February 1935) is a Taiwanese literary figure and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1935

Age: 90

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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People from Luodong, Yilan County, Taiwan 9T

Taiwanese male short story writers 15T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
6.

Hsiao Yeh

Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter

Overview: Li Yuan (Chinese: 李遠; born 31 October 1951), better known by his pen name Hsiao Yeh (小野), is a Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 31 October 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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21st-century Taiwanese short story writers 2T

Taiwanese male short story writers 15T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
7.

Nien-Jen Wu

Taiwanese screenwriter

Overview: Wu Nien-jen (Chinese: 吳念真; pinyin: Wú Niànzhēn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Liām-chin; born Chinese: 吳文欽; pinyin: Wú Wēnqīn; 5 August 1952 in Ruifang Township, Taipei County, Taiwan) is a scri ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Male actors from New Taipei 12T

Writers from New Taipei 5T

Taiwanese male short story writers 15T
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Wang Wenxing

Taiwanese writer (1939–2023)

Overview: Wang Wen-hsing (Chinese: 王文興; pinyin: Wáng Wénxìng; Wade–Giles: Wang Wên-hsing) was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, in 1939 and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures ...

Date of death: 27 October 2023

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Short story writers from Fujian 2T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

Taiwanese people from Fujian 21T
9.

Shi-Kuo Chang

Taiwanese writer

Overview: Shi-Kuo Chang (Chinese: 張系國; pinyin: Zhāng Xìgūo; Wade–Giles: Chang Hsi-kuo) is a computer scientist and writer famous for his science fiction writing. Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and ...

Date of birth: 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Short story writers from Chongqing 3T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

20th-century Chinese male writers 73T
10.

Zhang Dachun

Taiwanese writer

Overview: Chang Ta-chun (Chinese: 張大春; pinyin: Zhāng Dàchūn; Wade–Giles: Chang Ta-ch'un) (14 June 1957) is a notable Taiwanese author and literary critic. He is the author of many novels, two of which ...

Date of birth: 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Taiwanese male short story writers 15T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

Taiwanese male novelists 37T
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Cheng Ch'ing-wen

Writer

Overview: Cheng Ch'ing-wen (Chinese: 鄭清文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chheng-bûn; 16 September 1932 – 4 November 2017) was a Taiwanese writer and a graduate of National Taiwan University. He worked at the then gov ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1932

Date of death: 4 November 2017

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Chen Yingzhen

taiwanese writer

Overview: Chen Yingzhen (Chinese: 陳映真; 8 November 1937 – 22 November 2016) was a Taiwanese author. Chen is also notable for having served a prison sentence for "subversive activity" between 1968 and 1973. He ...

Date of birth: 1937

Date of death: 22 November 2016

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Taiwanese male short story writers 15T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

Taiwanese male novelists 37T
13.

Xie Bingying

Chinese soldier and writer

Overview: Xie Bingying (simplified Chinese: 谢冰莹; traditional Chinese: 謝冰瑩; pinyin: Xiè Bīngyíng; Wade–Giles: Hsieh Ping-ying; September 5, 1906 – January 5, 2000), was originally born as Xie Minggang ...

Date of birth: 5 September 1906

Date of death: 5 January 2000

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Military

Gender: Female

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Short story writers from Hunan 8T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

Taiwanese women short story writers 10T
14.

Ping Lu

Chinese writer

Overview: Lu Ping (Chinese: 路平; pinyin: Lù Píng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lō͘ Pêng), born in Kaohsiung in 1953, is a Taiwanese writer who writes under the pen name “Ping Lu”. Her writing encompasses a broad range ...

Date of birth: 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Female

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Chu Hsi-ning

Chinese writer

Overview: Chu Hsi-ning (born Chu Ch'ing-hai; 16 June 1927 – 27 March 1998) was a Chinese writer based in Taiwan.

Date of birth: 16 June 1927

Date of death: 22 March 1998

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Short story writers from Jiangsu 21T

Republic of China short story writers 33T

20th-century Chinese male writers 73T
16.

Cheng Kuo

Taiwanese author (born 1955)

Overview: Tao Te-san (born 24 August 1955), better known by his pen name Kuo Cheng, is a Taiwanese fiction writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays of several films directed by Ho Ping and Kevin ...

Date of birth: 24 August 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: Taiwanese

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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21st-century Taiwanese short story writers 2T

21st-century male writers 1,614T

Taiwanese male short story writers 15T
17.

Family Catastrophe

Taiwanese writer (1939–2023)

Overview: Wang Wen-hsing (Chinese: 王文興; pinyin: Wáng Wénxìng; Wade–Giles: Wang Wên-hsing; 1939 – 27 September 2023) was a Taiwanese writer.

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2023 deaths 11,186T

Short story writers from Fujian 6T

Taiwanese people from Fujian 25T