Li Wenjun (; 8 December 1930 – 27 January 2023) was a Chinese translator and writer of prose. Li served as the vice chairman of Translators Association of China and as the director of the Literature and Art Translation Committee. He was also a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Li was one of the main translators of the works of the American novelists William Faulkner and Frances Hodgson Burnett into Chinese. For his contributions to the introduction of American literature to foreign readers, he was honored with the Sino-US Literature Exchange Award in 1994.
Biography Li was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong on 8 December 1930. He graduated from Fudan University in 1952, where he majored in journalism at the Department of Journalism. After graduation, Li began to publish his works, and worked in World Literature (《》) as an editor. In 1979, Li joined the China Writers Association.
Death Li died on 27 January 2023, at age 92.
Translations The Sound and the Fury () As I Lay Dying () Go Down, Moses () Absalom, Absalom! () Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) () A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) () The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) () The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) () The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson Mccullers) ()
Works William Faulkner () A Brief History of American Literature () Woman and The Gallery () Zonglangdahuaji () Seeking, finding ()
Personal life Li married Zhang Peifen (), also a translator.
Award Sino-US Literature Exchange Award (1994) TAC's Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation (2014)
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