Ni Kuang

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Ni Kuang
Chinese: 倪匡
Born
Ni Cong

(1935-05-30)30 May 1935
Died3 July 2022(2022-07-03) (aged 87)
Occupation(s)Novelist, screenwriter, actor
Writing career
Period1956–2005
GenreWuxia, science fiction
Ni Kuang
Chinese倪匡
Ni Cong
(birth name)
Traditional Chinese倪聰
Simplified Chinese倪聪
Yiming
(courtesy name)
Chinese亦明

Ni Cong (30 May 1935 – 3 July 2022), courtesy name Yiming, better known by his pen name Ni Kuang (also romanised Ngai Hong, I Kuang and Yi Kuang), was a Hong Kong novelist and screenwriter. He wrote over 300 Chinese-language novels, and more than 400 movie scripts. His best known movies were One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and The Seventh Curse (1986). He was born in Shanghai.

Ni died on 3 July 2022 in Hong Kong from skin cancer, aged 87.[1]

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