宁瑛

Ning Ying is a translator and editor about whom relatively little public information is available, known for long-term work in introducing foreign literature through translation. Five related titles are held in the collection, involving novellas and collected works by German-language writers such as Franz Kafka, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Elfriede Jelinek, including The Trial, the Kafka collected works, The Marquesa of O—selected novellas by Hoffmann, and The Piano Teacher. These works are generally classified under foreign literature and world classics, with subjects ranging from modernist fiction and psychological portrayal to absurd narrative, indicating a focus on major twentieth-century German-language authors. As details of birth and death dates, nationality, and education remain unknown, a fuller account of the person is difficult; the existing titles nevertheless show sustained efforts to present German-language fiction and representative works by a Nobel laureate to Chinese readers.