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Qiu Miaojin was born on 29 May, 1969 in Changhua County, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese novelist. Discover Qiu Miaojin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 26 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, short story writer, filmmaker
Age 26 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 29 May, 1969
Birthday 29 May
Birthplace Changhua County, Taiwan
Date of death 25 June, 1995
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Taiwan

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1969

Qiu Miaojin (29 May 1969 – 25 June 1995), also romanized as Chiu Miao-chin, was a Taiwanese novelist.

1994

She is best known for her 1994 novel Notes of a Crocodile.

Qiu's works are "frequently cited as classics", and her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan.

Originally from Changhua County in western Taiwan, Qiu Miaojin attended the prestigious Taipei First Girls' High School and National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a major in psychology.

She worked as a counselor and later as a reporter at the weekly magazine The Journalist.

In 1994, she moved to Paris, where she pursued graduate studies in clinical psychology and feminism at University of Paris VIII, studying with philosopher Hélène Cixous.

Qiu died by suicide at age 26.

Most accounts suggest that she stabbed herself with a kitchen knife.

Qiu Miaojin's writing is influenced by the non-narrative structures of avant-garde and experimental film as well as European and Japanese literary modernisms.

Her novels contain camera angles and ekphrasis in response to European art cinema, including allusions to directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos, Derek Jarman, and Jean-Luc Godard.

During her time in Paris, Qiu directed a short film titled Ghost Carnival.

Her works as a filmmaker are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Notes of a Crocodile was published in 1994, amid a Taiwanese media frenzy surrounding lesbians, including an incident in which a TV journalist secretly filmed patrons at a lesbian bar without their consent, resulting in some suicides, and the group suicide of two girls, rumored to have been lesbians, from the elite high school attended by several characters in the novel and by Qiu herself.

Along with her final work before her death, Last Words from Montmartre, the novel has been widely described as "a cult classic."

Last Words From Montmartre is an epistolary novel that comprises 20 letters that can be read in any order, drawing on the notion of musical indeterminacy.

Its prose appears to "blur distinctions between personal confession and lyric aphorism" according to a review in Rain Taxi.

1995

Her best-known work is Notes of a Crocodile, for which she was posthumously awarded the China Times Literature Award in 1995.

The main character's nickname, Lazi, is the direct source of a key slang term for "lesbian" in Chinese.

Dated between 27 April 1995, and 17 June 1995, about a week before the author killed herself, the letters begin with the dedication: "For dead little Bunny, and Myself, soon dead."

It has been described as a work of relational art and noted for the required presence of the reader, "a 'you' to narrate to" that is a signature of Qiu's works.

Qiu has been recognized as a literary national treasure and counterculture icon, as well as described as a "martyr" in the movement for LGBT rights in Taiwan.

Her works are taught in high schools and colleges in Taiwan and have "become a literary model for many aspiring writers".

With Chen Xue, Lucifer Hung and Chi Ta-wei her work is viewed as that of a “new generation of queer authors” from Taiwan.

Luo Yijun's book Forgetting Sorrow (遣悲懷) was written in her memory.

2017

Moreover, Taiwanese writer Li Kotomi explicitly cites Qiu's Notes of a Crocodile as an inspiration for her 2017 novel Solo Dance. Queer Sinophone scholar Fran Martin writes:

Qiu Miaojin's life, work, and circumstances of her suicide have been made by Evans Chan into a documentary film, Love and Death in Montmartre 蒙馬特之愛與死, with the participation of Lai Xiangyin 賴香吟, award-winning novelist and Qiu's literary executor.

The film originated from a 50-min short, Death in Montmartre 蒙馬特 · 女書, commissioned and broadcast by RTHK in 2017.

2019

Chan later expanded it into the full-length Love and Death in Montmartre, which was premiered as a Best Film nominee at the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival in 2019.

2020

Subsequently, the San Diego Asian Film Festival presented its US premiere in 2020.

Hélène Cixous described the Evans Chan film as “fascinating” and “marvelous,” with Qiu evoked as “a moving apparition in search of lost love.”