Huang Chun-ming

Huang Chun-ming (Chinese: 黃春明; born 13 February 1935) is a Taiwanese literary figure and teacher.

Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and many of his short stories have been turned into films, including The Sandwich Man (1983).

In more recent works he has turned his attention to urban culture and life in Taiwan's growing cities.

Starting in the 1990s, he established and has written for and directed the Big Fish Children's Theater Troupe (黃大魚兒童劇團).

[2] He opened a cafe and salon in his native Yilan, operating it for three years before closing it in December 2015.

[3] Huang has said that in his early years he had limited access to literature in Chinese and that significant influences were Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and "The Killers"; Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," "The Bear," The Wild Palms, and other American literature.

[4] The major translation of Huang's work into English is The Taste of Apples (Howard Goldblatt trans).

(The Taste of Apples was previously published in a slightly different form as The Drowning of an Old Cat and Other Stories, (Howard Goldblatt trans.).

Alternate translations of individual stories in the Taste of Apples collection are shown in the associated article.

Other English language translations of Huang's work (found at http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/bib.htm): "Ah-Ban and the Cop."

In Wai-lim Yip, ed., Chinese Arts and Literature: A Survey of Recent Trends.