Qiu Miaojin 邱妙津 | |||||||||
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| Native name | 邱妙津 | ||||||||
| Born | 29 May 1969 Changhua County, Taiwan | ||||||||
| Died | 25 June 1995 (aged 26) Paris, France | ||||||||
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, filmmaker | ||||||||
| Language | Chinese (Taiwan) | ||||||||
| Nationality | Taiwanese | ||||||||
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University University of Paris VIII | ||||||||
| Period | 1989–1995 | ||||||||
| Genre | Literary fiction, autobiography | ||||||||
| Literary movement | LGBT literature | ||||||||
| Notable works | Notes of a Crocodile, Last Words from Montmartre | ||||||||
| Notable awards | China Times Literature Award, Central Daily News Short Story Prize, United Literature Association Award | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 邱妙津 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 邱妙津 | ||||||||
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Qiu Miaojin (Chinese: 邱妙津; 29 May 1969 – 25 June 1995), also romanized as Chiu Miao-chin, was a Taiwanese novelist. She is best known for her 1994 novel Notes of a Crocodile. Qiu's works are "frequently cited as classics",[1] and her unapologetically lesbian[2] sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan.
- ^ Martin, Fran; Heinrich, Ari Larissa (2006-07-31). Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-8248-2963-6.
- ^ Sang, Tze-Lan D (2003), The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China, University of Chicago Press, p. 159, ISBN 0-226-73480-3