Guo Hong'an


Guo Hong'an was a Chinese translator most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the French poet Charles Baudelaire and Albert Camus.

Biography

Guo was born in Laiwu County, Shandong, on 2 February 1943. After graduating from the Department of Western Languages, Peking University in 1966, he successively worked as a staff of the Second Artillery Command and translator of the Xinhua News Agency. From 1975 to 1977, he studied at the French School of Language and Culture at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Guo returned to China in 1977 and did his postgraduate work at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Guo started to publish translations in 1978, and joined the China Writers Association in 1986.
Guo died in Beijing on 16 January 2023, at the age of 79.

Translations

Collected Works of Albert Camus Notesof Albert Camus: 1935–1959 The Outsider/ Sisyphus Myth Yves Bonnefoy Selected Papers on Baudelaire's Aesthetics The Flower of Evil The Melancholy of Paris
  • ''Artificial Paradise''

Awards