Hong Kong writer Shen Xicheng posted on social networking sites on July 3 that writer Ni Kuang passed away at the age of 87.
Ni Kuang, formerly known as Ni Cong, with the word Yiming, was born in Shanghai on May 30, 1935, and his native place is Ningbo, Zhejiang. Came to Hong Kong in 1957. He successively used a number of pseudonyms, including Wesley, Shaweng, Yuechuan, Wei Li, Yiqi, Hongxin, Weilong, etc.
Ni Kuang and Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Cai Lan are also known as the “Four Talents in Hong Kong”.
Ni Kuang is well-known for his science fiction novels, and he has also written many supernatural stories and a few martial arts novels. Among them, the most famous works include “The Wesleyan Series”, “The Original Zhenxia Series”, “The Black Woman Mulan Series” and so on. The most widely known is the “Wesley series”, from 1962 to 2004, he published a total of 145 Wesley novels in 42 years.
Ni Kuang moved to the United States in 1992 and returned to Hong Kong from the United States in 2006. In 2012, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards.
(Source: Hong Kong China News Agency/Editor: Luo Yu)
