Wu Junxie

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.

Wu Junxie (simplified Chinese: 吴钧燮; traditional Chinese: 吳鈞燮; pinyin: Wú Jūnxiè; born 1928) is a Chinese translator.^[1]

Wu Junxie
Native name	吴钧燮
Born	1928 (age 96–97) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Occupation	Translator
Language	Chinese, English
Alma mater	Zhejiang University
Period	1959–2000
Genre	Novel
Notable works	Jane Eyre

Wu is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Brontë and Virginia Woolf.^[2][3]

Biography

Wu was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in 1928.

He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1951, where he majored in English. After graduation, Wu was appointed an officer to the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.^{[citation needed]}

In 1959, Wu was transferred to the People's Literature Publishing House as an editor.^{[citation needed]}

After the Cultural Revolution, Wu joined the China Writers Association in 1982.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• The Biography of Leo Tolstoy (列夫·托尔斯泰评传)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (简·爱)^[4]
• The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (老人与海)
• The Textbook of Woolf (Virginia Woolf) (伍尔夫读本)
• The Collected Works of Woolf (Virginia Woolf) (伍尔夫文集)
• Play Making (剧作法)^[5]

Awards

• Chinese Translation Association – Senior Translator (2004)^[6]