Chu Tʽien-wen

Chu Tʽien-wen
Born (1956-08-24) 24 August 1956
Taipei, Taiwan
LanguageChinese
EducationTamkang University (BA)
Relatives
Chinese name
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhū Tiānwén
Wade–GilesChu1 T'ien1-wen2

Chu Tʻien-wen (Chinese: 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 Tʻien-hsin are also famous writers.