About Wu Mengchang
Lived 1911 – 2006 (aged 94–95). Wu Mengchang was a Chinese translator.
Wu Mengchang (; 1911 - 6 October 2006) was a Chinese translator and author who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 1995, a prestigious literature award in China.
He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelist Maxim Gorky.
Biography Wu was born in Xinning County, Guangdong in 1911. He joined the China League of Life-Wing Writers in 1932.
He graduated from Fudan University in 1935, where he majored in foreign language and literature.
Personal life He had a son, Wu Yongguang .
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Who was Wu Mengchang?
Chinese writer
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Wu Mengchang was born in 1911 in Xinning County.
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Wu Mengchang died on 6 October 2006 in Beijing.
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Wu Mengchang was a translator.
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