Jinyong

Louis Cha, OBE (born June 6, 1924), known to most by his penname Jinyong, Kam-yung (Cantonese), is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists who is also the co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao.

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He is widely regarded as the finest Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") writer, a reputation based on some fifteen wuxia novels and short stories he wrote between 1955 and 1972, and has a widespread, unchallenged, almost religious following in all Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. His works have been translated into Korean, English, Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia and Thai and he has many fans abroad as well, thanks to the numerous adaptations of his works made into films and television serials.

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Asteroid 10930 Jinyong (1998 CR2) is named after him.

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