Gui Yufang

Gui Yufang (; 21 September 1930 – 22 December 2022) was a Chinese translator. She was one of the foremost translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelist Guy de Maupassant.

Biography Gui was born in Wuhan, Hubei in 1930. She entered Tsinghua University in 1949, majoring in French at the Department of Foreign Language, where she graduated in 1952. Gui started to publish works in 1957.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, she was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work with her children in Jiangxi.

In 1976, Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying toppled the Gang of Four, she was rehabilitated, she returned to Beijing and taught at Peking University.

Gui retired in 1997. She died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 92.

Translation The Complete Works of Maupassant (Guy de Maupassant) In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) (Marcel Proust) Little Good-For-Nothing (Alphonse Daudet) (Michelle Buto) Childhood (Natalie Sarraute) (Margaret Duras) (Margaret Duras) (Margaret Duras) (Francois Mauriac)

Awards Chinese Translation Association – Competent Translator (2004)