Jin Yong
10 March 1924 – 30 October 2018
Jin Yong was the pen name of Louis Cha Leung-yung, a Hong Kong novelist and newspaper publisher. Between 1955 and 1972 he wrote fifteen wuxia novels, among them The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Deer and the Cauldron, which have been adapted repeatedly for film and television. He also co-founded the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao and served on the committee that drafted the territory's Basic Law.
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Life events
He was born Cha Leung-yung into a scholarly family in eastern China.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis education was repeatedly interrupted by war and by expulsion for writing critical of school authorities.
He was transferred to the paper's Hong Kong edition as a translator and editor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe work appeared in the New Evening Post under the pen name Jin Yong.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel established his reputation across the Chinese-reading world.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe launched the Hong Kong daily and wrote both its editorials and serialised fiction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe stopped writing fiction after the serialisation ended.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe resigned from the committee in 1989.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died at the age of 94 after a long illness.
Source: en.wikipedia.org