Guo Hong'an (; 2 February 1943 – 16 January 2023) was a Chinese translator most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the French poet

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticis ...

and

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...

Biography

Guo was born in Laiwu County,

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, on 2 February 1943. After graduating from the Department of Western Languages,

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

in 1966, he successively worked as a staff of the Second Artillery Command and translator of the

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. From 1975 to 1977, he studied at the French School of Language and Culture at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centu ...

in Switzerland. Guo returned to China in 1977 and did his postgraduate work at the Graduate School of the

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. Guo started to publish translations in 1978, and joined the

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in 1986. Guo died in

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on 16 January 2023, at the age of 79.

Translations

* ''Collected Works of Albert Camus'' (Albert Camus) () * ''Notesof Albert Camus: 1935–1959'' (Albert Camus) () * ''The Outsider/ Sisyphus Myth'' (Albert Camus) () * ''Yves Bonnefoy'' (

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was pr ...

) () * ''Selected Papers on Baudelaire's Aesthetics'' (Charles Baudelaire) () * ''The Flower of Evil'' (Charles Baudelaire) () * ''The Melancholy of Paris'' (Charles Baudelaire) () * ''Artificial Paradise'' (Charles Baudelaire) ()

Awards

* 2012

Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award The Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award (French: Le Prix Fu Lei) (Chinese: 傅雷翻译出版奖) is an award established in 2009 by the French Embassy in China to recognize the works of Chinese translators and publishers translated from French ...

for translation of ''Recueil'', written by

References

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