Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94
![Louis Cha holds his book "Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge" at his office in Hong Kong, 2002](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/E039/production/_104110475_hi050291440.jpg)
Novelist Louis Cha, who wrote under the name Jin Yong, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Hong Kong at the age of 94.
He had become a household name across many Chinese-speaking parts of Asia, having sold millions of books and inspiring a whole genre of TV shows, comics and even video games.
"I don't think there's another writer that's been read by more people [in the Chinese-speaking world], period," Eileen Chow, a visiting associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, told the BBC
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