Lucifer Chu
Taiwanese writer
Lucifer Chu (Chinese: 朱學恒; pinyin: Zhū Xuéhéng; Wade–Giles: Chu Hsueh-heng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chu Ha̍k-hêng; born February 19, 1975) is a Taiwanese writer and translator. He dedicated himself to promoting fantasy literature because of his passion for video games and fantasy fiction. He translated J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings into Chinese. He also translated Dragonlance Chronicle, published in 1998. He has translated 30 fantasy novels into Chinese.
Career
Chu graduated from Taiwan's National Central University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. Chu learned English by playing computer games and writing reviews and walk-throughs for gaming magazines, and later by working as a professional translator of fantasy novels. He is the author of five Chinese books and translator of more than twenty fantasy novels.
Chu translated The Lord of the Rings into Chinese. The Linking company published his translation in 2001.
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