Hao Yun

Hao Yun (; 1925 – 10 June 2019) was a Chinese translator. Over a career spanning seven decades, he translated more than 60 works from French to Chinese. He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by the Translators Association of China.

Biography Hao was born as Hao Liandong in 1925 in Nanchang, Jiangxi, Republic of China. He graduated from Department of French Literature of the Sino-French University, which was exiled in Kunming during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1946.

From 1947 to 1953 Hao worked for the Red Cross Society of China in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing. In 2015, he was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by the Translators Association of China.

Hao died on 10 June 2019 at Renji Hospital in Shanghai, at the age of 94.