Author · Singapore
Miao Xiu
Died in 1980
Miao Xiu, the pen name of a writer of the Lu family from Sanshui, in Guangdong, was born in 1920 in Singapore and grew up in a poor street. Educated in an English school, without ever attending a Chinese school, he taught himself to write in Chinese and published his first texts at seventeen in a literary supplement edited by Yu Dafu, who noticed him and guided him. A bank clerk, newspaper translator and literary supplement editor, then associate professor in the Chinese department of Nanyang University, he was also vice-president of the Singapore writers' association. He died in 1980.