Howard Goldblatt

Howard Goldblatt
Howard Goldblatt
	Goldblatt in 2014
Born	1939 (age 84–85); California, United States
Alma mater	California State University, Long Beach; San Francisco State University; Indiana University Bloomington (PhD); National Taiwan Normal University
Occupation	Translator
Organization	University of Notre Dame;
Spouse	Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Chinese name
Chinese	葛浩文
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gě hàowén

Howard Goldblatt (Chinese: 葛浩文, born 1939) is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese (mainland China & Taiwan) fiction, including The Taste of Apples by Huang Chunming and The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi. Goldblatt also translated works of Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan,^[1] including six of Mo Yan's novels and collections of stories.^[2]^[3] He was a Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame from 2002 to 2011.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Cohorst, Kate (October 11, 2012). "Professor From Notre Dame Translates Nobel Winner's Novels". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
^ "Works in English translation (including Goldblatt's)". Mo Yan. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. Bibliography. The Swedish Academy Nobelprize.org. 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
^ "Howard Goldblatt and Joseph Allen. A Conversation". University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study. November 27, 2012. Archived from the original (available in video and audio formats) on December 7, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2013.