陶傑

繁體中文

陶傑原名曹捷，1958年喺香港出世，另有筆名楊非劫、蔣壹礁，係香港作家同傳媒人。佢童年住灣仔摩利臣山道一帶，中學時期開始投稿，以散文《屋之輓歌》奪得1976年全港中學生徵文比賽冠軍。十七歲佢負笈英國，先後喺華威大學取得英國文學學士學位、喺倫敦政治經濟學院修讀國際關係，之後喺英國廣播公司任職八年，並兼任香港電台駐英記者。1991年佢應武俠小說家金庸邀請返港，出任《明報》副刊副總編輯，其後做過《華僑日報》副總編輯同《東快訊》政治編輯，長期為《蘋果日報》、《壹週刊》、《am730》等撰寫專欄，並主持商業電台節目《光明頂》多年。散文集《泰晤士河畔》獲第三屆香港中文文學雙年獎，2021年佢移居英國。

English

Chip Tsao, born Tso Chik in Hong Kong in 1958 and also writing as Yang Fei-kip, is a Hong Kong writer and media figure. Raised near Morrison Hill Road in Wan Chai, he began publishing as a schoolboy and won the 1976 territory-wide secondary school essay competition with 'Elegy of a House'. He left for Britain at seventeen, took a BA in English literature at Warwick, studied international relations at the London School of Economics and spent eight years with the BBC while also serving as RTHK's London correspondent. Invited back by the martial-arts novelist Jin Yong in 1991, he became deputy editor of Ming Pao's supplement, later held the same post at Wah Kiu Yat Po and was political editor of the English-language Eastern Express. His columns ran for years in Apple Daily, Next Magazine and am730, and he long hosted Commercial Radio's Above the Skies. His essay collection 'The Thames' won the third Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and he moved to Britain in 2021.