Eric Abrahamsen

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Eric Abrahamsen
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Eric Abrahamsen (born 1978) is an American award-winning literary translator from Chinese to English. [1]

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Biography

Abrahamsen studied Chinese at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing from 2001, and remained in China until 2016, translating and promoting Chinese literature. He hosts the website Paper Republic. [2]

Awards

Publications

Abrahamsen has translated numerous works of varying lengths, which have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, n+1, and Paper Republic. He also writes about contemporary Chinese literature.

Translations of Novels

Translations of Short Stories

GNU Emacs

In his spare time, Abrahamsen is also a programmer active in Emacs community. He is the author of Org-Translate, an Org-based translation environment. [5]

References

  1. Eric Abrahamsen, Paper Republic website, https://paper-republic.org/ericabrahamsen/
  2. "How an American translator pretended to be Chinese for a year online". www.scmp.com. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 Nov 2021.
  3. PEN Translation FUnd Announces its 2009 Grant Recipients https://pen.org/press-release/pen-translation-fund-announces-its-2009-grant-recipients/
  4. Twenty foreigners win the 9th Special Book Award of China in Beijing, Chinaculture.org, 2015-08-26. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2015-08/26/content_21713779.htm
  5. "GNU ELPA - org-translate". elpa.gnu.org. GNU Project. 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-04.