Luo Yijun


Luo Yijun is a Taiwanese writer.

Biography

Luo attended Chinese Culture University, where he studied Chinese literature under authors such as Zhang Dachun, who influenced his early style; he later earned a master's degree in theater from Taipei [National University of the Arts]. His works include fiction, poetry, essays, and literary criticism. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the China Times Literature Award and the 10th United Daily News Literature Prize. In 2007, he was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Themes and Style

The only child of mainland Chinese immigrants who fled the Kuomintang, Luo has attributed the themes of alienation and migration in novels such as Tangut Inn, which combines science fiction with characteristics of postmodern literature, or the quasi-autobiographical vignettes that comprise We, to his own experience of cultural outsiderness growing up in Taiwan. His style has been described by David Der-wei Wang as "pseudo-autobiographical intimate narratives constituting a relay race of fragments, filled with uncanny and decadent imagery and undergirded by an immoral worldview".

Legacy and Impact

Luo's essay collection My Little Boys has been adapted into a play by Huang Zhi-kai of the theater troupe Story Works (故事工廠).
Luo's Tangut Inn has been adapted into a play by Wei Ing-chuan.
Xu Rong-zhe (許榮哲), Taiwanese author of the novel 迷藏, once said that he was influenced by Luo Yijun and Taiwanese author Yuan Zhe-sheng (袁哲生).

Awards and honors

Short story collections

● The Red Ink Gang / Red Character Group
● We Left the Bar of the Night
● Wife Dreams of Dog
● We / Us
● Nativity of the Zodiacs / Born Into the Twelfth Sign
● Letter / ''Alphabets A-F''

Novels

● The Third Dancer
● Moon Family / Family of the Moon
● Elegy
● The Distance / Far Away
● My Future 2nd Son’s Memory of Me
● Tangut Inn
● Daughter
● ''Kuang chao ren''

Prose

● Wo ai luo
● In Search of Lost Time
● Jingji da xiaotiao shiqi de mengyou jie
● Face Book
● My Little Boys
● May Our Joy Stay: My Little Boys 2
● Fitness v.s. Fatness
● Hu ren shuo shu
● Chun zhen de dan you
● ''Taxi Driver''

Fairy tales

● ''Children's Tales for the Little Star''

Poems

● Luo Yi Jun’s Poetry: The Story of Abandonment
● The Story of Abandonment (Taipei: INK Publishing. 2013.

Plays

● ''Qing xie''

Picture books

● Kafei guan li de jiaohuan gushi
● My Little Boys: Ye wan bao shi bao long
● My Little Boys: Ming da de zhang lang
● My Little Boys: You yong
● My Little Boys: Lan san
● ''My Little Boys: Chao jia''

Editor in Chief

● Collected Short Stories 2009
● ''Pi mei mao de fa qing ──LP xiao shuo xuan''