Xie Sutai


Xie Sutai was a Chinese translator.
She was most notable for being one of the main translators of the works of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy into Chinese.

Biography

Xie was born in Hebei in November 1925.
Xie was accepted to Southwest United University in 1945, where she majored in the Department of Foreign languages.
After the Chinese Civil War, Xie was transferred to Tsinghua University. After graduating in 1949, she was appointed an editor to the People's Literature Publishing House.
Xie started to publish works in 1950 and she joined the China Writers Association in 1984.
Xie died of pneumonia on July 18, 2010 at Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing.

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