任護花

繁體中文

任護花（筆名周白蘋）係三十年代廣州記者、影評人、流行小說作家、辦報人及著名粵劇編劇家。佢曾經執導嘅電影達超過20部，另外在戰前收購《先導報》經營，戰後創辦《先導日報》同《紅綠日報》。佢嘅妻子係著名舞星紫葡萄（馮翠華），兩人嘅第二位兒子任忠章係香港英皇書院畢業生，1962年9月到美國加州大學讀醫科。1976年7月26日任護花在香港病逝。佢嘅流行小說作品包括《大戰扭計深》、《大戰玻璃黨》、《大鬧墨西哥》、《大鬧紐約》、《大戰芝加哥》、《橫渡太平洋》、《大破暗殺團》、《大鬧上海》、《大戰三K黨》、《再鬧紐約》、《血戰奧大利》等，多以冒險、奇情同偵探題材為主，反映當時省港報刊連載小說嘅通俗閱讀風氣。

English

Yam Wu-fa, who also wrote under the pen name Chow Pak-ping, was a 1930s Guangzhou journalist, film critic, popular novelist, newspaper proprietor and celebrated Cantonese opera playwright. He directed more than twenty films, took over and ran a newspaper before the war, and founded two newspapers after it. His wife was the well-known dancer Zi Putao, and their second son graduated from King's College in Hong Kong before leaving for medical school at the University of California in September 1962. Yam died in Hong Kong on 26 July 1976. His serialised novels carried titles such as Big Battle with the Scheming Deep, Big Battle with the Chicago Gang and Blood Battle in Austria, mostly adventure, mystery and detective stories of the kind that fed the appetite for popular serial fiction in the Cantonese press of his day.