Tu An is a literary translator, writer and editor. He used the pen names Li Tongyou, Zhao Renyuan, Shu Mou, She Fang, Hua Sha, and Bi Ou. 1923 165438+ was born on1October 23rd. People from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. From 193 1 to 1942, primary school, middle school, and then studied in the Railway Management Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University. Later, in college, he joined a secret reading club, co-organized a mimeographed poem "Wildfire" with friends, and participated in the progressive student movement. /kloc-0 joined the China * * * production party in February, 946. 1946 began to write and translate foreign poems. 1948 Translated and published "Selected Poems of Whitman Drum". 1949 after the liberation of Shanghai, he worked in the reform of traditional Chinese opera in the Shanghai Ministry of Literature and Art, and later served as the editor-in-chief of East China Opera Newspaper, translating and publishing Shakespeare's sonnets and poets in the Soviet Union. From 1956 to 1962, he served as the standing editorial board and editorial director of Drama Newspaper, and translated and published the famous drama "The Minister's Wife" by Yugoslav playwright Nusic. After 1963, he served as deputy director of the research office of the Dramatists Association. 1973, he served as deputy director, director and editor-in-chief of the modern literature editing room of People's Literature Publishing House.
20 12 was elected as the consultant of China Poetics Research Society in Jiangsu Province in May.
His wife Fang Guxiu and his daughter Zhang Yandou are English translators.