Ren Rongrong.
Great China University (the predecessor of East China Normal University) alumni Ren Rongrong was awarded the Shanghai Life Award in Literature and Art at 2013 Shanghai Literature and Art Conference on February 27. Before that, Ren was also granted Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by Translators Association of China on December 6, 2012.
Shanghai Life Award in Literature and Art is a prize for privileged artists who have won major awards at home and abroad. ECNU former professors Shi Zhecun and Wang Yuanhua were once awarded Shanghai literature and Art Award for Outstanding Contribution, the predecessor of the prize, respectively in 1993 and 1998.
Renrong's translation works.
Ren Rongrong, born in 1923 in Shanghai with the name Ren Genliu, is a famous translator of child literature. After his graduation from Department of Chinese Literature in Great China University in 1945, he worked as an associate editorial director of Shanghai Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House and deputy editor in chief of Shanghai Translation Publishing House subsequently . His translating works include The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, etc. He also wrote fairy tales “Never Mind” & “Not Happy” , Children Understand Big Affairs and so on. He was endowed many awards including Chen Bochui Award for Outstanding Contribution in Children's Literature, Song Qingling Award for Special Contribution in Children's Literature, IBBY Prize for Translation, etc.
Written by: Shi Yangyang
Edited by: Liu Jinyu
