Wu Zhuoliu

Wu Zhuoliu, whose real name was Wu Jiantian, was born in 1900 into a Hakka family in Hsinchu; his grandfather was a poet. A teacher in a Japanese school, transferred to a village for an article deemed radical, he resigned in 1940 and left for Nanjing as a reporter, before returning to journalism in Taiwan. Kept out of the press for seven years after 1947, he ran a high school, founded in 1964 a literary review from which he refused to remove the word Taiwan, then created a prize funded from his pension.

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• NovelOrphan of Asiaアジアの孤児Wu Zhuoliu · 1946Literature