Ouyang Yu, now based in Melbourne, came to Australia in early 1991 and has published over 60 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in the English and Chinese languages. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Otherland. His noted books include his award-winning novels The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collections of poetry Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997) and New and Selected Poems (2004), his translations in Chinese, The Female Eunuch (1991), The Ancestor Game (1996) and The Man Who Loved Children (1998), his book of literary criticism, Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888–1988 (2008), and his musings on Chinese and English words, On the Smell of an Oily Rag (2008).