Mr. Chen Liangting, a famous translator and writer, died yesterday afternoon at the age of 91 due to ineffective rescue from illness. Chen Zaorong, the daughter of Mr. Chen Liangting, released the news, saying, "The week before I took my parents to see the cherry blossoms, everything came so suddenly, I now have a heart-rending pain." ”
Chen Liangting, born in 1929, is a native of Chaoyang, Guangdong. He studied at Shanghai Guanghua University (the predecessor of East China Normal University) and then joined Warner Film Company Shanghai Branch as a publicity assistant and edited the film journal Mercury Lantern.
Chen Liangting began translating short articles for the Declaration during his middle school years. He began to engage in literary translation in 1951, worked in the Shanghai Compilation Institute in the 1960s, and was a member of the compilation team of the "May 7" cadre school in Shanghai during the "Cultural Revolution", and after the reform and opening up, he and his wife Liu Wenlan translated a large number of British and American modern literary works. In 2003, he was awarded the title of Senior Translator by the China Translators Association.
His main translations include the novels "Selected Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe", "The Fool Goes Abroad", "Sons and Lovers", "Gone with the Wind", "Moon Gem", "Godfather", the script "Arthur Miller's Selected Plays", "Cats on the Hot Tin Roof", "Selected Plays of Odez", fairy tales "True and False Prince" and so on.
Chen Liangting once modestly said in an interview with reporters: "I can't tell anything about translation theory. My policy is to translate Chinese understand. "He said that when he was young, he read Fu Lei, Zhu Wen, Ba Jin, and Xiao Qian's translations and pens, and he was quite comfortable reading them." Like Xiao Qian's "Good Soldier Shuai ke", how well translated. There are also Zhang Yousong, Shi Jingcun, Yang Dai, and Yang Bi, all of whom are idols we worship. I read their translations repeatedly and tried to find the original text to compare, which benefited me a lot. I strive to learn the best of the skins of famous artists. ”
Source: Beijing Daily client | reporter Lu Yanxia
Edit: Jin Liwei
Process Editor: Dan Guo