Zheng Yonghui

Zheng Yonghui (; 1918 – 9 September 2012) was a Chinese writer (of Chinese Vietnamese ethnicity) and translator who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize, a prestigious literature award in China.

Zheng rendered a great number of French literary works into Chinese for almost five decades, including 40 novels.

Zheng is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the French novelists Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo.

Biography Zheng was born in Haiphong, French Indochina in 1918, with his ancestral home in Zhongshan, Guangdong.

Zheng graduated from Aurora University (Shanghai) in 1942, majoring in law at the Department of Law, and taught there when graduated.

Zheng started to publish works in 1983 and joined the China Writers Association in 1980.

In 1987, Zheng was sent abroad to study at the expense of the government.

Zheng died in Beijing in 2012.

Works The Complete Works of Balzac La Peau de chagrin (Honoré de Balzac) (Balzac) (Alexandre Dumas) Our Love (Alexandre Dumas) (André Gide) The Short Stories of Prosper Merimee (Prosper Merimee) (George Sand) Nana (Emile Zola) Ninety-Three (Victor Hugo) (Victor Hugo)

Awards Lu Xun Literary Prize (1998) Chinese Translation Association – Competent Translator (2004)

Personal life Zheng married Deng Huiqun , the couple had a son, Zheng Ruolin , who was a Chinese journalist in France.