Kuo Liang-hui

Kuo moved to Chiayi, Taiwan after marrying Sun Ji-dong, pilot of the Republic of China Air Force in 1949.

To increase income for living, Kuo started off with novel translations (including works of Guy de Maupassant), and soon became a novelist.

Further to her first short story Young Group in Alley, she has a few columns in a number of renown magazines and her serialisation of novel Niwa edge made her a more confirmed position in the world of literature.

At the time when The Lock of Hearts was published, Kuo shot to fame whilst she was criticised and prohibited on her sexual and ‘immoral’ affair topics and let to the biggest crisis in her writing career.

Her statue is located in the celebrity cemetery zone of Chin Pao San, Jinshan District, New Taipei, Taiwan.