Luo Fu | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Pseudonym: | Luo Fu |
Birth Name: | Mo Yun-tuan |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1928 |
Birth Place: | Hengyang, Hunan, Republic of China |
Death Place: | Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan |
Occupation: | poet |
Language: | Chinese |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Alma Mater: | Tamkang University |
Period: | 1943–2018 |
Spouse: | Chen Chiung-fang |
Portaldisp: | y |
Mo Yun-tuan (; 11 May 1928 – 19 March 2018), known by the pen name Luo Fu, was a Taiwanese writer and poet.
He was born Mo Yun-tuan in 1928 and raised in Hengyang. Mo's first work was published in 1943. He joined the Republic of China Navy, and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Mo received a bachelor's degree in English from Tamkang University in 1973, the same year he retired from the navy.[1] He married Chen Chiung-fang of Kinmen.[2]
In Taiwan, Mo published several collections of poetry, anthologies, and essays, as well as a number of translations.[3] His own works were translated into several languages.[1] Mo and his contemporary Yu Kwang-chung were described as the Gemini of Chinese poetry, in reference to the constellation depicting the mythological twins Castor and Pollux.[4] Luo Fu founded the Epoch Poetry Society alongside and in 1954.[5] He later left Taiwan for Canada in 1995. Wang Dan published a collection of poems titled Travel in Cold Alone in 2000, and cited Mo as an influence.[6] Mo's poem "Driftwood" (2000) was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. His final works were published in January 2018.[5]
In June 2016, Mo was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung.[7] He died of respiratory complications on 19 March 2018, while seeking treatment at Taipei Veterans General Hospital.[8]