Watch a reading by translator Bonnie Huie here.Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Listen to an interview with translator Ari Larissa Heinrich here.
See part of a Chinese-language documentary on Qiu, directed by Evans Chan, on Youtube here. Qiu’s films can be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2017, she became the subject of a feature-length documentary by Evans Chan titled Death in Montmartre.
In 2007, a two-volume edition of her Diaries was published. After her death in 1995, she was given the China Times Honorary Prize for Literature. The posthumous publications of her novels Last Words from Montmartre and Notes of a Crocodile made her into one of the most revered countercultural icons in Chinese letters. While in Paris, she directed a thirty-minute film called Ghost Carnival, and not long after this, at the age of twenty-six, she committed suicide. Her first published story, “Prisoner,” received theĬentral Daily News Short Story Prize, and her novella Lonely Crowds won the United Literature Association Award. She graduated with a degree in psychology from National Taiwan University and pursued graduate studies in clinical psychology at the University of Paris VIII. Qiu Miaojin (1969–1995) – one of Taiwan’s most innovative literary modernists, and the country’s most renowned lesbian writer – was born in Chuanghua County in western Taiwan.
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