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倪匡1935年5月30日在上海出生，原名倪聰，字亦明，籍貫浙江寧波。他1951年入讀華東人民革命大學後參軍，曾被派往蘇北同內蒙古，1957年由上海逃到香港，做過工人、校對同編輯，其後以寫作維生。1963年，他開始創作以冒險家「衛斯理」為主角嘅科幻小說系列，首部為《鑽石花》，系列其後超過一百四十部，融合科幻、偵探與冒險，風靡全球華人讀者。他一生寫下三百多部小說、四百多個電影劇本，並為邵氏兄弟編寫劇本，包括與張徹合作嘅《獨臂刀》（1967），1972年為李小龍嘅《精武門》編劇、塑造了「陳真」一角。他另以筆名「岳川」寫武俠小說，代表作《六指琴魔》，1981至1991年間完成《原振俠》系列，又曾喺金庸外遊期間代寫《天龍八部》部分連載。1987年他與友人發起成立香港作家協會並出任會長，與金庸、黃霑、蔡瀾並稱「香港四大才子」。1990年代初他曾移居美國三藩市，其後返港定居。2012年，他獲第31屆香港電影金像獎終身成就獎。他嘅衛斯理小說多次被改編成電影、電視與廣播劇，影響力延續至今。2022年7月3日，他在香港離世，享年八十七歲。除衛斯理外，他仲寫咗《原振俠》、《亞洲之鷹羅開》、《浪子高達》同《年輕人與公主》等多個系列，另以「魏力」等筆名發表作品。佢嘅電影劇本多為武俠同動作片，包括《馬永貞》、《流星蝴蝶劍》等，佢亦曾客串演出電影同主持電台節目。他一生以稿費養家，自學成才，其衛斯理系列更被改編成同名電視劇同廣播劇。佢寫作速度極快，高峰期同時為多份報刊連載小說同專欄，同金庸嘅交往亦廣為人知。倪匡嘅科幻小說以《藍血人》《老貓》《頭髮》《大廈》等為代表作，主角衛斯理同白素嘅冒險融合外星文明同科學想像；佢1960年代起喺《明報》等報刊連載，同金庸交情深厚。佢嘅妹妹係作家亦舒，兒子倪震亦從事寫作同電台工作，媳婦為藝人周慧敏。佢以「衛斯理」為筆名寫科幻、以「岳川」寫武俠，又以「魏力」等筆名發表雜文；寫作速度驚人，高峰期同時為多份報刊連載。佢嘅衛斯理系列多次被改編成影視作品，其中《原振俠》曾改編成1993年同名電視劇，由黎明主演，《衛斯理》亦於2003年拍成電視劇。佢1992年移居美國三藩市，2007年返港定居，晚年仍不時接受訪問同客串電影，其作品對華文科幻創作影響深遠。佢一生寫下超過三百部小說同四百多個電影劇本，題材涵蓋科幻、武俠、偵探同靈異。佢1957年偷渡來港後，做過工廠工人同報館校對，其後以寫稿維生，自學成才。
English
Ni Kuang was born in Shanghai on 30 May 1935 as Ni Cong, styled Yiming, with ancestral roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang. He entered the East China People's Revolutionary University in 1951 and then joined the army, serving in northern Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia before fleeing from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1957, where he worked as a labourer, proofreader and editor and turned to writing for a living. In 1963 he began his science-fiction series featuring the adventurer Wisely, starting with Diamond Flower; the series eventually ran to more than 140 novels blending science fiction, detective and adventure elements, and won readers across the Chinese-speaking world. He wrote more than 300 novels and 400 film scripts, including screenplays for Shaw Brothers such as The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) with Chang Cheh, and in 1972 he wrote Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, in which he created the character Chen Zhen. Writing wuxia under the pen name Yue Chuan, he produced The Six-Fingered Demon Lute, completed the Yuan Zhen-xia series between 1981 and 1991, and ghost-wrote sections of Jin Yong's Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils while Jin Yong travelled abroad. In 1987 he helped found the Hong Kong Writers' Association and served as its chairman, and he was one of the 'Four Great Talents of Hong Kong' alongside Jin Yong, James Wong and Chua Lam. He lived for a time in San Francisco in the early 1990s before settling back in Hong Kong. In 2012 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards, and he died in Hong Kong on 3 July 2022, aged 87. Apart from Wisely he wrote the Yuan Zhen-xia, Asian Eagle Luo Kai, Prodigal Gao Da and Young Man and Princess series, and published under other pen names such as Wei Li. Most of his screenplays were wuxia and action films, including The Boxer from Shantung and Killer Clans, and he also made cameo appearances in films and hosted radio programmes. He supported his family by his writing and was largely self-taught, and his Wisely stories were adapted into television series and radio dramas bearing the same name. A very fast writer, at his peak he ran serialised novels and columns in several papers at once, and his friendship with Jin Yong is well known.
