Fangge Dupan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 杜潘芳格 |
| Born | 9 March 1927 Xinpu, Hsinchu County |
| Died | 10 March 2016 (aged 89) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Alma mater | National Hsinchu Girls' Senior High School |
Fangge Dupan (Chinese: 杜潘芳格; pinyin: Dùpān Fānggé; Wade–Giles: Tu P'an Fang-kê; 9 March 1927 – 10 March 2016) was a poet of Taiwanese Hakka descent, renowned as a member of the "generation that straddles between (Japanese and Chinese) languages." Born to a prestigious Hakka family in Xinpu, Hsinchu, she began writing as a teenager in high school. Most of her early work is written in Japanese because she was educated in that language. Due to political pressure, she stopped writing in Japanese and did not publish until the 1960s, in Mandarin. In 1965, she joined the Li Poetry Society with a strong emphasis on the sense of place, and in the 1980s she began actively creating Hakka poetry. In the late 1980s, Fangge Dupan turned to her native Hakka language.
Her main works are Ghost Festival (中元節), PinAn Drama (平安戲), Paper Man (紙人), and Vegetable Garden (菜園).[1]