Xie Sutai

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xie.
Xie Sutai
Native name 谢素台
Born November 1925 (age 90)
Hebei, China
Died 2010 (aged 8485)
Beijing
Occupation Translator
Language Chinese, Russian, English
Nationality Chinese
Alma mater Tsinghua University
Period 1950 - 2010
Genre Novel
Notable works Anna Karenina

Xie Sutai (simplified Chinese: 谢素台; traditional Chinese: 謝素臺; pinyin: Xiè Sùtaí; November 1925 - 18 July 2010) was a Chinese translator.[1][2]

She was most notable for being one of the main translators of the works of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy into Chinese.[3][4]

Biography

Xie was born in Hebei in November 1925.[1]

Xie was accepted to Southwest United University in 1945, where she majored in the Department of Foreign languages.[1]

After the Chinese Civil War, Xie was transferred to Tsinghua University. After graduating in 1949, she was appointed an editor to the People's Literature Publishing House.[1]

Xie started to publish works in 1950 and she joined the China Writers Association in 1984.

Xie died of pneumonia at Chaoyang Hospital (朝阳医院), in Beijing, on July 18, 2010.

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Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Xie Sutai".
  2. "忆翻译家谢素台" (in Chinese). 深圳特区报. Retrieved 2010.
  3. 老翻译家谢素台寂寞辞世 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2010.
  4. "著名翻译家《安娜卡列尼娜》译者谢素台去世". Sina (in Chinese). Retrieved 2010.
  5. 谢素台、周扬 (1956-12-01). 《安娜·卡列尼娜》 (in Chinese). Beijing: 人民文学出版社. ISBN 9787020071302.
  6. 列夫·托尔斯泰 (2013-08-01). 《列夫·托尔斯泰文集》 (in Chinese). Beijing: 人民文学出版社. ISBN 978-7-02-008386-2.
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