[Explanation] On April 23, the launch conference of the Commercial Press "Yang Wuneng's Translation of German Literature Classics" was held at the Chongqing Library "Bashu Translation Weng Archives".

　　[Explanation] At the Bashu Translation Weng Archives, the reporter met with the 83-year-old German translator Yang Wuneng.

Yang Wuneng is the translator of the first full translation of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" after the founding of New China. He is a German translator, Goethe scholar and writer. He was awarded the German "National Meritorious Medal" by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the world's highest honor in the field of Goethe research. "Goethe Gold Medal".

At the age of 80, Yang Wuneng won the highest award in China's translation industry-the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation Culture.

　　[Explanation] For more than 60 years, Yang Wuneng has published and translated more than 10 million words, with a circulation of more than 10 million copies.

"Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Snow White" and other fairy tales from "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" have grown up with generations of young people in China.

Today, his retirement life is still busy, daily reading, translation reprints, translation selections... He told reporters that he has dealt with "books" all his life, and advancing with the times to help cultural communication is his lifelong pursuit.

　　[Explanation] Yang Wuneng believes that an excellent translator is the "triad" of writers, scholars, and translators. Translations must have literary beauty. Only in this way can literary translation become translated literature, become a classic translation, and be passed on from generation to generation.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Wuneng

　　A shortcut to learning foreign languages ​​is to learn foreign literature.

Foreign literature has a good language and good content, so you can read it with gusto, and you will learn it naturally. Of course, optical literature is not enough. You have to learn philosophy, geography, and history. Otherwise, how can you do well? Translation.

　　[Explanation] "Life lies in creation, creation for dedication" is Yang Wuneng's self-made life creed.

In order to better disseminate literary culture and maximize the value of literary wealth, Yang Wuneng continues to try new things, not only opens a public account to share essays and trends, but also negotiates the conversion of translated audiobooks with professional audio sharing platforms.

Yang Wuneng told reporters that he would also translate several more art fairy tales by Hoffman and Hoff.

He said that on his road to success, he has many people to be grateful for, regardless of the age of 83, 93, or 103, there is more than creativity and dedication.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Wuneng

　　Life is with creation, and creation is for dedication.

To whom, to the country, to the people, to the party, to the people, to children, to friends, to parents, to the hometown, there are so many objects of dedication, so it’s not enough. Keep creating.

　　[Explanation] It is reported that the "Yang Wuneng Translation of German Literature Classics" published by the Commercial Press covers German literature from the classicism "Faust", the romanticism "The Complete Works of Grimm's Fairy Tales", and the realism "Immor Lake". "Re-modernist "Selected Poems of Rilke" and other German literary masterpieces of different genres and styles in various development periods, totaling 25 volumes.

　　Reporter Jia Nan Zhong Yi reports from Chongqing

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]