杜國威

繁體中文

杜國威1946年生，係香港著名編劇。佢六歲開始參與香港電台及麗的呼聲嘅廣播劇演出，有「播音神童」之稱，八歲才入讀一年級；曾就讀金銀業貿易場學校同新法書院，1965年中五畢業，六至十三歲期間一直參與廣播工作。佢有十一名兄姊，其中胞姊為著名播音員梅梓（杜燕芝）；童年時亦曾演出電影《飄萍恨》、《遺腹子》。杜國威1971年畢業於香港大學地理系，1982年畢業於香港中文大學教育學院，先應徵博物館館長一職，再於夜校及可立中學任教十七年，並負責學校劇社，學生包括劉德華、黃洋達。1979年其短劇《球》獲選為香港話劇團優秀創作劇本；1992年考獲「亞洲文化協會利希慎留美獎學金」到紐約深造，1993年全職投身戲劇，為香港話劇團駐團編劇。代表作有《虎度門》、《人間有情》、《我和春天有個約會》、《聊齋新誌》同《南海十三郎》等，其侄女為杜雯惠。

English

Raymond To Kwok-wai, born in 1946, is one of Hong Kong's foremost playwrights and screenwriters. He began performing in radio drama at six for Radio Television Hong Kong and RTV, earning the nickname of the child prodigy of broadcasting, and only started primary school at eight; he studied at two schools in Kowloon and finished secondary school in 1965, having worked in radio throughout his childhood. One of twelve siblings, he had a celebrated broadcaster for an elder sister and as a boy appeared in two films. He graduated in geography from the University of Hong Kong in 1971 and later from the Chinese University of Hong Kong's education faculty, applied unsuccessfully for a museum post, then taught for seventeen years in night schools and a secondary school where he ran the drama club and taught, among others, Andy Lau. A 1979 short play won a Hong Kong Repertory Theatre award for outstanding new writing; in 1992 he won a prestigious Asian Cultural Council fellowship to study in New York, and from 1993 worked full time in theatre as playwright-in-residence at the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre. His best-known works include landmark stage plays and films about Cantonese opera and the 1960s, two of which won him Hong Kong Film Awards for best screenplay.