Zhou Libo

Background

Zhou Libo was born on August 9, 1908 in Yiyang, Hunan, China.

Career

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 Communist Party of China 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.

Achievements

• Zhou was bestowed the third class Stalin Prize in 1951 for his work The Hurricane.