Liu Wenfei

Liu Wenfei, born in Lu'an, Anhui, in 1959, is a Chinese translator and scholar of Russian literature who has long devoted himself to translating and studying Russian literature. His translations and introductions cover major Russian authors such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Brodsky, and his authored and translated works number more than one hundred; he has received honors including the Russian Likhachev Prize and the Order of Friendship. Among the fifteen works held in the collection—On Grief and Reason, A History of Russian Literature, Selected Poems of Pushkin, The Interwoven Flame: Letters of Three Poets, The Captain's Daughter, the illustrated history of Russian literature and the Lermontov collection—the subjects range across foreign literature, literary appreciation, classics and world masterpieces, including translations of poetry and letters as well as literary history. His work is marked by careful translation and a broad outlook, offering Chinese readers systematic texts and references for understanding the Russian literary tradition.