Gu Long

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Gu Long (born Xiong Yaohua, 7 June 1938, Hong Kong; died 21 September 1985, Taipei) was a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He studied at Tamkang University and published his first wuxia novel, Cangqiong Shenjian, in 1960 under the pen name Gu Long. From 1967 he became one of the leading wuxia writers of his time and is counted with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng as one of the three pillars of the genre. His style is marked by short sentences and paragraphs and a large amount of dialogue, like a stage script, and he drew on writers such as Hemingway and Nietzsche and on films such as James Bond and The Godfather rather than on Chinese history and philosophy. In the 1980s he founded a film studio to adapt his own works. Illness in his later years led him to use ghostwriters for some books. He died of complications of cirrhosis.

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Books

• 绣花大盗 (The Embroidery Bandit) (1973) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 陆小凤传奇 (The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng) (1973) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 决战前后 (Before and After the Duel) (1974) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 银钩赌坊 (The Silver Hook Gambling House) (1975) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 幽灵山庄 (Phantom Manor) (1976) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 凤舞九天 (The Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens) (1978) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon
• 剑神一笑 (Laughter of the Sword God) (1981) · Lu Xiaofeng Series Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 7 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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