Chu Tʽien-wen

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| caption = Chu at the 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1956|8|24}}

| birth_place = Taipei, Taiwan

| language = Chinese

| relatives = {{Unbulleted list|Chu Hsi-ning, father|{{ill|Liu Musha|zh|劉慕沙}}, mother|Chu T{{wg-apos}}ien-hsin, sister}}

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| education = Tamkang University (BA)

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Chu T{{wg-apos}}ien-wen ({{zh|c=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.

Her father Chu Hsi-ning and younger sister Chu T{{wg-apos}}ien-hsin are also famous writers.

Biography

Chu T{{wg-apos}}ien-wen was born in Taipei, Taiwan.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} 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 T{{wg-apos}}ien-hsin. Her teacher was Hu Lancheng, and she was also greatly influenced by Eileen Chang.陈, 秀雯 (2011). {{Cite web |url=http://eprints.utar.edu.my/401/1/CH-2011-0900050.pdf |title=论朱天文作品中的成长叙事. |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-12-07 |archive-date=2019-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713201802/http://eprints.utar.edu.my/401/1/CH-2011-0900050.pdf }}拉曼大学中文系. Chu weaves an eclectic tapestry of culture through the personal history and musings of her mentor.{{Cite journal|last1=T'ien-wen|first1=Chu|last2=Zhu|first2=Ping|date=2016-09-01|title=On Myths and Riddles|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2016.11834097|journal=Chinese Literature Today|volume=5|issue=2|pages=63–69|doi=10.1080/21514399.2016.11834097|s2cid=165984959 |issn=2151-4399}} Chu published her first novel in 1972.{{Cite web|title=朱天文: 我们一路都在扔读者--访谈--中国作家网|url=http://www.chinawriter.com.cn/n1/2018/1212/c405057-30460762.html|access-date=2021-12-07|website=www.chinawriter.com.cn}} 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,{{Cite web |title=台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival |url=https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/awards/nw/?serach_type=award&sc=8&search_regist_year=1983&ins=19 |access-date=2022-10-20 |website=www.goldenhorse.org.tw |language=zh-TW}} Chu also co-produced the soundtrack.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

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.王, 艺 (2011). 朱天文文学道路探析. 兰州大学文学院: 文教资料. p. 19-20.{{Cite web |url=https://clt.oucreate.com/featured/chu-tien-wen-winner-of-the-2015-newman-prize-for-chinese-literature/ |title=Chu T'ien-wen: Winner of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. |access-date=2021-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207082033/https://clt.oucreate.com/featured/chu-tien-wen-winner-of-the-2015-newman-prize-for-chinese-literature/ }}clt.oucreate.com. 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.{{Cite web |title=台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival |url=https://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/awards/nw/?serach_type=award&sc=8&search_regist_year=1985&ins=19 |access-date=2022-10-20 |website=www.goldenhorse.org.tw |language=zh-TW}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/Chu.html |title=Chu T'ien-Wen Wins 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature |access-date=2014-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502000641/http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/Chu.html |archive-date=2016-05-02 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite journal|last1=T'ien-wen|first1=Chu|last2=Zhu|first2=Ping|date=September 2016|title=We All Change into Somebody Else: In Acceptance of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2016.11834093|journal=Chinese Literature Today|volume=5|issue=2|pages=42–43|doi=10.1080/21514399.2016.11834093|s2cid=149338993 |issn=2151-4399}} Chu has been awarded Best Screenplay at the international Venice Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival.{{Cite journal|last=Berry|first=Michael|date=September 2016|title=Three Times: Chu T'ien-wen on Writing, Screenwriting, and New Taiwan Cinema|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2016.11834095|journal=Chinese Literature Today|volume=5|issue=2|pages=46–57|doi=10.1080/21514399.2016.11834095|s2cid=194775878 |issn=2151-4399}}

Works translated to English

Year	Chinese title	Translated English title	Translator(s)
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rowspan=2\|1986	rowspan=2\|炎夏之都	"The Long Hot Summer"Renditions, 1991.	Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
"A City of Hot Summer"The Chinese PEN, Summer 1988.	rowspan=2\|Michelle Yeh
1988	柴師父	"Master Chai"{{cite book\|title=Running Wild: New Chinese Writers\|url=https://archive.org/details/runningwildnewch00wang\|url-access=registration\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|year=1994}}
1989	肉身菩薩	"Boddhisattva Incarnate"{{cite book\|title=Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan\|year=2003\|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press\|isbn=978-0-8248-2652-9}}	Fran Martin
1990	世紀末的華麗	"Fin de Siècle Splendour"{{cite book\|title=The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature\|year=1995\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|isbn=0-231-08002-6}}	Eva Hung
1994	荒人手記	Notes of a Desolate Man{{cite book\|title=Notes of a Desolate Man\|year=1999\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|isbn=978-0-231-11608-4\|url-access=registration\|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231116084}}	rowspan=2\|Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
2006	巫言	"Witch's Brew"Asymptote, January 2012.
2015	我們有義務成為另一些人	"We All Change into Somebody Else"Chinese Literature Today, 2016.	Ping Zhu

Filmography

=Films=

Year !English title !Chinese title !Director !class="unsortable"\|Notes
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rowspan=2\|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	rowspan=2\|Hou Hsiao-hsien
rowspan=2\|1984	A Summer at Grandpa's	冬冬的假期
Out of the Blue	小爸爸的天空	rowspan=3\|Chen Kunhou	co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
rowspan=4\|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	rowspan=2\|Hou Hsiao-hsien
rowspan=2\|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	rowspan=10\|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	rowspan=1\|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

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Year !# !Award !Category !Film !Result
1983 \|20th \|rowspan=7\|Golden Horse Awards \|rowspan=2\|Best Adapted Screenplay \|Growing Up \|{{won}}
1984 \|21st \|A Summer at Grandpa's \|{{nom}}
1985 \|22nd \|rowspan=2\|Best Original Screenplay \|The Time to Live and the Time to Die \|{{won}}
1989 \|26th \|A City of Sadness \|{{nom}}
1995 \|32nd \|Best Adapted Screenplay \|Good Men, Good Women \|{{won}}
2005 \|42nd \|Best Original Screenplay \|Three Times \|{{nom}}
2015 \|52nd \|Best Adapted Screenplay \|rowspan=2\|The Assassin \|{{nom}}
2016 \|13th \|International Cinephile Society Awards \|Best Adapted Screenplay \|{{nom}}

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Year

!Award

!Category

!Film

!Result

1983

|20th

|rowspan=7|Golden Horse Awards

|rowspan=2|Best Adapted Screenplay

|Growing Up

|{{won}}