Zhou Libo (writer)

Zhou Libo (9 August 1908 – 25 September 1979) was a Chinese novelist and translator.

Biography
Zhou was born Zhou Shaoyi in Yiyang, Hunan on 9 August 1908. He began to use the pseudonym Libo, of which sound is the resemblance of English word "liberty", in the 1930. Zhou taught himself English, then he translated some English versions of Soviet novels. He was imprisoned for supporting a workers' strike in 1932, on his release he joined the League of the Left-Wing Writers in 1934 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1935. He served as a war reporter during 1937–38, and interpreter to Agnes Smedley meantime. Then he went to Yan'an and worked at Lu Xun Art Institute (鲁迅艺术学院) in 1939.

Zhou was bestowed the third class Stalin Prize in 1951 for his work The Hurricane. He had been targeted during the Cultural Revolution.

Zhou was elected as the deputy of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd National People's Congresses.

Works

 * 暴风骤雨 (Baofeng zhouyu) 1948, translated as The Hurricane (Translated by Hsu Meng-Hsiung. Illustrations by Ku Yuan.) Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1955.
 * 山乡巨变 (Shanxiang jubian), 1958. translated as Great Changes in a Mountain Village (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1961).