Zhou Kexi (Chinese: 周克希), born 1942, is a Chinese translator of French literature.
Biography
editZhou gained a degree in mathematics from Fudan University. He acquired the French language and became interested in French literature while studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He became a full-time literary editor in the 1980s, and has since then translated several French novels, including Les trois mousquetaires, Madame Bovary, and La Voie royale. He is currently making a new translation of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. The first volume, Du côté de chez Swann,[1] was published in 2004. He has also rendered Aventures mathématiques[2] by Miguel de Guzmán into Chinese.
References
edit- ^ Proust, Marcel (2001). Du Côté de Chez Swann. Project Gutenberg.
- ^ Guzmán, Miguel de (1990). Aventures mathématiques. Lausanne, Suisse: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. ISBN 2-88074-171-8. OCLC 23065026.
External links
edit- A Conversation between Zhou and François Cheng (in Chinese)
- Fortunately not lost in translation
- Volumes of Passion and Patience
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