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Solemn ceremony of the "Russia - China. Literary diplomacy" International Translation Prize presenting took place in Beijing, RIA Novosti writes. The award was established in 2019 by the Russian Translation Institute and the Beijing Center for Slavic Studies. This year the laureates were announced for the first time. They are scheduled to be elected every two years.
The award is part of the larger Read Russia award. The laureate of Literary Diplomacy will be the finalist of this competition. The prize is awarded for the best translations of books by Russian writers into Chinese. Not only translators, but also executive editors become laureates. There are three awards in total.
The first place was taken by the famous Russian scholar Cheng Fan and the editor Han Xiaozheng for their work on the "My Children" by Guzel Yakhina.
The professor of Peking University Zhao Guilian and the editor Xia Haihan, who introduced the Chinese readers to the book by Anatoly Kurchatkin "The Sun Shone", took the second place.
The third place was awarded to Yu Mingtsin, associate professor of the Russian language faculty of the Metropolitan Pedagogical University, for the translation of "The Mental Wolf" by Alexey Varlamov. Wang Ting was awarded 3rd place for editing.
According to Liu Wenfei, Scientific Director of the Beijing Center for Slavic Studies, who headed the jury, the new award is aimed at increasing interest in Russian literature. He called the translators ambassadors of the art of words and people's diplomats.
The representative of Rospechat Vladimir Grigoriev, in turn, emphasized that China was in the lead in the number of published books translated from the Russian language.
Russkiy Mir
