Author · China
Yu Dafu
Died in 1945
Yu Dafu was born on 7 December 1896 in Fuyang, in Zhejiang. He left for Japan in 1913, studied political economy at the Imperial University of Tokyo and in 1921 founded the Creation Society with Guo Moruo, Zhang Ziping and Tian Han. In 1930 he helped to found the League of Left-Wing Writers, and later worked as a journalist in Singapore. Having taken refuge in Sumatra in 1942 under a false name, he was forced to act as an interpreter for the Japanese military police there; arrested on 29 August 1945, he was probably executed, and his death is dated to 17 September 1945.