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