Qiu Miaojin

Qiu Miaojin (邱 妙 津; * May 29, 1969 in Changhua County, † June 25, 1995 in Paris) was a Taiwanese writer.

Life

Your determined attitude to female homosexuality had great influence on this literary genre in Taiwan. They first visited the Premier High School for Girls in Taipei and then studied psychology at the National Taiwan University. She worked as a consultant and then as a journalist for the weekly magazine journalist. In 1994 she moved to Paris and began a study in clinical psychology and feminism at the University of Paris VIII, you probably died by suicide, allegedly she has stabbed himself with a kitchen knife.

Awards

For her most famous work Notes of a crocodile, she received the Literature Prize of the China Times in 1995.

Works (selection)

• Notes of a crocodile (鳄鱼 手记eyu shǒujì, 1994)
• The suicide letter from Montmartre (蒙马特 遗书Méngmǎtè Yishu, 1996)
• Journal 1989-1995, diaries two volumes, (邱 妙 津 日记Qiu Miàojīn Riji, 2007)
• Contributions in Angel Wings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan, University of Hawaii Press, 2003, ISBN 0824826523