Huang Chunming

Huang Chunming , born in Ilan, Taiwan in 1939, is an influential Taiwanese writer and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and many of his short stories have been turned into films, including .

Career

Huang began his higher education career at a college in Taipei but, after a series of transfers, ended up graduating from National Pingtung University of Education in southern Taiwan. He is a writer of broad interests and remarkable versatility, but he is first of all a short story writer. During the 1960s as a major contributor to the influential ''Literature Quarterly'', Huang was hailed as a representative of ''hsiang-t'u wen-hsueh'', the "nativist " that focused on the lives of rural Taiwanese people. In more recent works he has turned his attention to urban culture and life in Taiwan's growing cities.

Translations into English

* ''The Drowning of an Old Cat and Other Stories'', . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

* ''The Taste of Apples'', . New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.