The White Cockatoo Flowers

Ouyang Yu came to Australia in mid-April 1991 and has since published books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in both English and Chinese, including his award-winning novels The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collection of poetry Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997) and his poetry book Terminally Poetic (2020), which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. He was shortlisted for the Writer’s Prize in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature and received a Fellowship from the Australia Council in the same year. His sixth novel, All the Rivers Run South, was published in late 2023.