Louis Cha
(1924-2018)
Hong Kong writer
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Louis Cha Leung-yung GBM OBE (Chinese: 查良鏞; 6 February 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: 金庸), pronounced "Gum Yoong" in Cantonese, was a Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao in 1959 and served as its first editor-in-chief. He was Hong Kong's most famous writer, and is named along with Gu Long and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
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6 June 1924 Haining, Zhejiang, China
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| Died |
30 October 2018 (aged 94) Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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