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Gao Mang

1926-10-01 – 2017-10-06

Life & Legacy

Gao Mang (Chinese: 高莽; pinyin: Gāo Mǎng; 1926 – 6 October 2017) also known by his pen name Wulanhan (乌兰汗; 烏蘭汗; Wū Lánhán), was a Chinese translator and painter who had been honored by the governments of both Russia and China.
He was one of the main translators of the works of the Russian poets Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Lermontov and Anna Akhmatova into Chinese. His translation of Anna Akhmatova's Requiem had won the Russian-Chinese Translator Prize in 2013.

Occupation & Career

painter, translator, scientist, writer

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Order of Friendship; Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation; Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences · Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation · Order of Friendship · Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class

Employer

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q15613453 — wikidata View source

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