Wu Mengchang (; 1911 - 6 October 2006) was a Chinese translator and author who won the

Lu Xun Literary Prize The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years since 19 ...

in 1995, a prestigious literature award in China. He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelist

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

Biography

Wu was born in Xinning County,

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

in 1911. He joined the China League of Life-Wing Writers () in 1932. He graduated from Fudan University in 1935, where he majored in foreign language and literature. Wu started to publish works in 1936. In 1952, Wu joined the

China Writers Association China Writers Association or Chinese Writers Association (CWA, ) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Liter ...

. Wu died in Beijing on October 6, 2006.

Works

* ''The Complete Works of Gorky'' (

) () * ''

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'' (

Eugene Sue Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...

) () * '' Americans in Japan'' () * ''

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'' (Medvedev) ()

Awards

(1995) *

Chinese Translation Association The Translators Association of China (TAC) () is a national association for translation studies in China. Founded in the 1980s TAC was part of the academic response to the national Economic Reform in 1978. The incumbent President of TAC's 6th Ex ...

– Senior Translator (2004)

Personal life

He had a son, Wu Yongguang ().

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Mengchang 1911 births 2006 deaths Writers from Jiangmen Fudan University alumni People's Republic of China translators Russian–Chinese translators 20th-century Chinese translators 21st-century Chinese translators 20th-century novelists Chinese male novelists 20th-century Chinese male writers Republic of China translators People from Taishan, Guangdong