Cao Ying

Sheng Junfeng (; March 23, 1923 – October 25, 2015), better known by his pen name Cao Ying , was a Chinese translator.

Sheng was one of the main translators of the works of Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov into Chinese. In 1987, he was honored by the Government of the Russian Federation with the Maxim Gorky Literature Prize. He was the only Chinese translator to have won that award.

Biography Born in a wealthy family in Zhenhai County, Kuaiji Dao, Zhejiang in 1923, both his grandfather and father were doctors. His mother, Xu Shujuan , was a daughter of an eminent family. His elder maternal cousin, Xu Xu , was a romantic novelist. And his great-grandfather was the founder of Shengziji Soy Sauce Brewery , which participated in exhibition on Panama World's Fair in 1915. He graduated from The Lester School and Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education Attached School , Songjiang School , and Nantong Agricultural College . He got gastrorrhagia in 1969 and he fractured his backbone in 1975.

After the reform and opening up, he was rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping. He served as vice president of Chinese Translation Association, president of Shanghai Translation Association, vice president of Shanghai Writers Association. He became a professor at East China Normal University and Xiamen University.

From 1978 to 1998, he spent 20 years to translate The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy into Chinese.

He joined the Russian Writer Association in 2006.

Cao died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, on October 25, 2015, at the age of 93.

Works (Mikhail Sholokhov)

And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokhov) The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) The Resurrection (Leo Tolstoy) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) The Caucasus Story (Leo Tolstoy) A Landlord's Morning (Leo Tolstoy)

Awards Maxim Gorky Literature Prize (1987) Lu Xun Literary Prize (1997) China-Russia Friendship Award (1999) Chinese Translation Association - Senior Translator (2002) Maxim Gorky Souvenir Medal (2006) Chinese Translation Association - Lifetime Honorary Award (2011)