Chu Tʽien-wen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chu.

Chu Tʻien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; born 24 August 1956) is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

Chu Tʽien-wen
Chu at the 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition
Born	(1956-08-24) 24 August 1956 (age 68) Taipei, Taiwan
Language	Chinese
Education	Tamkang University (BA)
Relatives	Chu Hsi-ning, father Liu Musha [zh], mother Chu Tʻien-hsin, sister
Chinese name
Chinese	朱天文
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhū Tiānwén Wade–Giles Chu1 T'ien1-wen2

Her father Chu Hsi-ning and younger sister Chu Tʻien-hsin are also famous writers.

Biography

Chu Tʻien-wen was born in Taipei, Taiwan.^{[citation needed]} She was born to one of the most prestigious literary family in contemporary Taiwan. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tʻien-hsin. Her teacher was Hu Lancheng, and she was also greatly influenced by Eileen Chang.^[1] Chu weaves an eclectic tapestry of culture through the personal history and musings of her mentor.^[2] Chu published her first novel in 1972.^[3] In 1983, Chu adapted the award-winning novel "Growing Up" into a screenplay for the screen. Besides winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Award of the 20th Golden Horse Award,^[4] Chu also co-produced the soundtrack.^{[citation needed]}

While attending Tamkang University, Chu served as the chief editor of The Threes journal (Sansan jikan 三三集刊), The Threes magazine (Sansan zazhi 三三雜誌), and co-founded The Threes Bookstore Publisher (Sansan shufang 三三書坊) with her sister and friends.^[5][6] In 1985, she wrote the screenplay "The Time to Live and the Time to Die" and won the best original screenplay award in the 22nd Taiwan Golden Horse Award.^[7] Some of her notable novels are Fin-de-Siècle Splendour (世紀末的華麗, 1990), Notes of a Desolate Man (荒人手記, 1994), and Witch's Brew (巫言, 2008). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo, City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989), and many more.

Chu was named the winner of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature for Fin-de-Siècle Splendour, making her the first female writer to win the award.^[8] When Chu came to the University of Oklahoma to receive the Newman Prize in early March 2015, she participated in the Chinese Cinema Salon funded by the Presidential Dream Course on Chinese Cinema.^[9] Chu has been awarded Best Screenplay at the international Venice Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival.^[10]

Works translated to English

Year	Chinese title	Translated English title	Translator(s)
1986	炎夏之都	"The Long Hot Summer"[11]	Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
		"A City of Hot Summer"[12]	Michelle Yeh
1988	柴師父	"Master Chai"[13]
1989	肉身菩薩	"Boddhisattva Incarnate"[14]	Fran Martin
1990	世紀末的華麗	"Fin de Siècle Splendour"[15]	Eva Hung
1994	荒人手記	Notes of a Desolate Man[16]	Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
2006	巫言	"Witch's Brew"[17]
2015	我們有義務成為另一些人	"We All Change into Somebody Else"[18]	Ping Zhu

Filmography

Films

Year	English title	Chinese title	Director	Notes
1983	Growing Up	小畢的故事	Chen Kunhou	co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
	The Boys from Fengkuei	風櫃來的人	Hou Hsiao-hsien
1984	A Summer at Grandpa's	冬冬的假期
	Out of the Blue	小爸爸的天空	Chen Kunhou	co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1985	My Favorite Season	最想念的季節		co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
	The Matrimony	結婚		co-wrote with Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
	Taipei Story	青梅竹馬	Edward Yang	co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien
	The Time to Live and the Time to Die	童年往事	Hou Hsiao-hsien
1986	Dust in the Wind	戀戀風塵		co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
	Drifters	流浪少年路	Chen Kunhou	co-wrote with Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
1987	Daughter of the Nile	尼羅河女兒	Hou Hsiao-hsien
1989	A City of Sadness	悲情城市		co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1993	The Puppetmaster	戲夢人生		co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1995	Good Men, Good Women	好男好女
1996	Goodbye South, Goodbye	南國再見，南國		co-wrote with Jack Kao and Lim Giong
1998	Flowers of Shanghai	海上花		based on The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
2001	Millennium Mambo	千禧曼波
2003	Café Lumière	咖啡時光
2005	Three Times	最好的時光
2015	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘		historical film, co-wrote with niece Hsieh Hai-meng and Ah Cheng
2020	Unfulfilled Dreams	願未央	Chu T'ien-wen	Documentary

TV series (incomplete)

• 1982 Guarding Sunlight, Guarding You (守著陽光守著你)?
• 1989 Sweet Baby (甜蜜寶貝)

Film awards

Year	#	Award	Category	Film	Result
1983	20th	Golden Horse Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay	Growing Up	Won
1984	21st			A Summer at Grandpa's	Nominated
1985	22nd		Best Original Screenplay	The Time to Live and the Time to Die	Won
1989	26th			A City of Sadness	Nominated
1995	32nd		Best Adapted Screenplay	Good Men, Good Women	Won
2005	42nd		Best Original Screenplay	Three Times	Nominated
2015	52nd		Best Adapted Screenplay	The Assassin	Nominated
2016	13th	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated