Ni Kuang
Ni Kuang | |||||||||||
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| Chinese: 倪匡 | |||||||||||
Ni at Hong Kong Shue Yan University in 2007 | |||||||||||
| Born | Ni Cong 30 May 1935 | ||||||||||
| Died | 3 July 2022 (aged 87) Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, China | ||||||||||
| Occupations | Novelist, screenwriter, actor | ||||||||||
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| Period | 1956–2005 | ||||||||||
| Genre | Wuxia, science fiction | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 倪匡 | ||||||||||
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| Ni Cong (birth name) | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 倪聰 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 倪聪 | ||||||||||
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| Yiming (courtesy name) | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 亦明 | ||||||||||
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Ni Kuang (Chinese: 倪匡; born Ni Cong [simplified Chinese: 倪聪; traditional Chinese: 倪聰]; 30 May 1935 – 3 July 2022), courtesy name Yiming, was a Hong Kong novelist and screenwriter. He was known as a highly-prolific author of wuxia and science fiction stories, reportedly penning over 300 Chinese-language novels, and more than 400 film scripts. He was considered one of the three major figures of the wuxia genre, alongside Jin Yong and Gu Long, and has been described as "a giant of Chinese literature."