"Although my hair is gray, I still have to say that I grew up reading Ren's books. In 1956, the year I was born, it was the birth of Ren Lao's classic work "Brainless and Unhappy". Six years later, I saw the animation of the same name shot by Shanghai Mei film Studio... Looking back, how much joy ren's years of hard work have brought to childhood, and how much has been taught in this happiness. Wei Yuqing, president of the Shanghai Translators Association and a German-language translator, said.
"Elder Ren has always insisted on child-oriented, as he himself said - I always want them to be happy. He translates children's literature in colloquial, easy-to-understand, and with a particularly beautiful touch. He translates children's poems, and the rhyme and rhythm meet the needs of children, without losing the charm of the poem. He was pure and persistent, writing and translating for children all his life; he focused on and pursued his own style, which was to make words reach readers in a way that simplified complexity. Zhao Lihong, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, writer and poet, said.
"A hundred years old is like a vast book." Writer Yin Jianling said.
"Ren Lao is like a moving library and a lighthouse." Writer Lu Mei said.
On January 12, the symposium on the publication of the 20-volume Ren Rong Rong Translation Collection with a total word count of nearly 10 million words was held in Shanghai Translation Publishing House. Speaking of Ren Rongrong, guests from Shanghai's literary circles, translation circles, and publishing circles have endless words.
Ren Rongrong, whose real name is Ren Yiqi, was born in Shanghai in May 1923. He is fluent in Chinese languages and translates children's literature in english, Russian, Japanese and Italian. Children's literature classics such as Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Charlotte's Web, Willow Forest Wind, Pippi Longstocking, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, etc., have been circulated among generations of readers through Ren Rongrong's translation.
In 1942, Ren rongrong published his first translation, "The Army Through The County of Dis", by the Ukrainian writer Taisnyak, which is now 80 years.
On January 1, 1946, Ren Rongrong published the first children's literature translation in the inaugural issue of New Literature magazine under the pseudonym of Yi Lan, the novel "Fried Meat Slices Made of Clay" by the Turkish writer Sadri Etem, and began his journey of children's literature translation.
"Ren RongRong Translation Collection" is the first collection of Ren Rongrong translation works launched in China, including more than 80 works of nearly 40 well-known writers around the world, which took more than three years to edit and publish, filling the gap in this field in China. The project was selected into the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Key Publications" issued by the State Press and Publication Administration, and won the first prize of the 16th Shanghai Book Awards in 2021.
Ren Rongrong once said: "I translate children's literature works in many countries, and I only hope that our children can read the world's excellent children's literature works, and I only hope that Our children can get happiness and enjoy good works of art with the children of the world." ”
As Fang Weiping, a children's literature scholar and deputy director of the Children's Literature Committee of the China Writers Association, said: "Mr. Ren Rongrong's translated works are in many languages, large in number and long in duration, and his translation of children's literature has opened up a great bridge between Chinese and foreign children's literature exchanges between the East and the West, influenced generations of young readers, and also had a profound impact on the creation of Chinese children's literature." Ren Rongrong integrated his love and understanding of children into the translation, and his translations are easy to read, kind and humorous, and infectious.
The Collected Translations of Ren Rong Rong is the largest collection and publication of Ren Rong Rong's translated works so far. Gao Hongbo, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, served as the honorary editor-in-chief of the Editorial Board of the Anthology, Ren Rongkang, son of Ren Rongrong, served as the editor-in-chief, and more than ten writers and scholars from the field of children's literature and translation, such as Shu Peide, Jiang Feng, Fang Weiping, and Zhu Ziqiang, served as the editorial board.
According to the different periods of Ren Rongrong's translation over the years and the characteristics of multilingual spanning, the Ren Rongrong Translation Anthology is divided into two parts: the first part, nine volumes, divided into volumes according to the genre of translation, volume I is a poetry volume, volumes two to six are novel volumes, volume seven is a drama fable fairy tale volume, volumes viii and 9 are fairy tale volumes, that is, the upper and lower volumes of Andersen's Fairy Tales; the second part, eleven volumes, are divided into volumes according to important writers who can be independently composed.
Opening the "Ren Rongrong Translation Collection" is like pushing open the door of a magnificent literary palace, and every detail reflects the translator's lifelong hard work and outstanding achievements. Han Weidong, president of Shanghai Translation Publishing House, said: "I sincerely hope that this set of nearly 10 million words of tomes will bring the best reading experience to young readers and big readers who love to read, and leave a warm reading memory in life." ”
In recent years, Ren's dissolved and oxygen masks have become inseparable, and readers still read his short articles from the press from time to time. "I hope that Elder Ren will accompany us for a longer time, and a little longer." Yin Jianling said emotionally.
Jian Ping, a children's literature writer and critic, mentioned his recent visit to Elder Ren, "As soon as he saw me, he asked about the situation of the Kaiwen Congress and the Composition Congress in Beijing. I read to him the five-point requirement put forward by the general secretary for literary and art workers, and read it to the last point: Persist in carrying forward the right path and achieve the value of life in the pursuit of virtue and art -- I said, you are the representative of virtue and art. Elder Ren said, I dare not be, and said that this is indeed what every literary and art worker should do. ”
Elder Ren once asked me: Do you advocate the main theme of your writing? He said that the main theme of childhood is happiness, and the main theme of life should also be happiness. His whole life has been composing the main theme of happiness. Children's literature writer Zhang Hong said.