Stefan Zweig

Novelist, biographer and translator

Stefan Zweig was the most read author in the interwar world. A master of novellas and novels, many of which are iconic not only on paper but on screen, he was also the translator of Verhaeren, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Keats; and the biographer of Balzac, Romain Rolland, Montaigne, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Nietzsche and Mary, Queen of Scots, amongst others. Forced into exile during the Second World War, Zweig, who had considered himself a citizen of the world, chose to die before the War ended, saying ‘I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on Earth’.

Guillaume Apollinaire poet and critic

Peter Behrman de Sinéty translator

Thomas Carlyle essayist and historian

Eileen Chang novelist

Chi Li novelist

Chiang Ching dancer and essayist

Tan-Ying Chou sinologist and translator

Fan Zhongyan poet and politician of the Song Dynasty

Annelise Finegan translator

Romain Graziani sinologist and translator

Han Fei thinker of the Legalist School during the Warring States

Han Yu poet, essayist and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Mingyuan Hu historian, writer and translator

Hu Shih philosopher, writer and politician

David Hume historian and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment

Jean Izoulet philosopher

Jiang Yun novelist

Jean Levi sinologist and translator of Chinese classics

Liyine Levi-Wong translator

Liu Yiqing writer, statesman and patron during the Six Dynasties

Mencius philosopher during the Warring States, ‘Second Sage’ after Confucius

Gabriel Monod historian

Mu Xin painter and poet

Ouyang Xiu poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty

Qu Yuan poet and statesman during the Warring States

Isabelle Rabut sinologist and translator

Maël Renouard novelist, essayist and translator

Sophie Sa translator

George Sand novelist and critic

Shao Baoqing sinologist and translator

Shi Zhecun novelist, essayist and translator

Song Gang translator

Cory Stockwell literary scholar, writer and translator

Su Shi poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard journalist and translator

Hippolyte Taine philosopher, historian and critic

Wei Zheng historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Xunzi philosopher and teacher during the Warring States

Zhang Yanyuan painter, art historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty

Stefan Zweig novelist, biographer and translator