Notes of a Desolate Man (Chinese: 荒人手記; pinyin: Huāng rén shǒujì) is a work of fiction written by the Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-wen in 1994. The novella was translated into English by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. This queer postmodern novel is one of her most well-known works, and won the China Times Novel Prize.