Native name 谢素台 Period 1950 - 2010 Occupation Translator Name Xie Sutai | Nationality Chinese Education Tsinghua University Alma mater Tsinghua University Notable works Anna Karenina | |
Language Chinese, Russian, English Died July 18, 2010, Beijing, China | ||
Xie Sutai (simplified Chinese: 谢素台; traditional Chinese: 謝素臺; pinyin: Xiè Sùtaí; November 1925 - 18 July 2010) was a Chinese translator.
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She was most notable for being one of the main translators of the works of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy into Chinese.
Biography
Xie was born in Hebei in November 1925.
Xie was accepted to Southwest United University in 1945, where she majored in the Department of Foreign languages.
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.
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.