Howard Goldblatt (Chinese: 葛浩文, born 1939) is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese (mainland China & Taiwan) fiction, including The Taste of Apples by Huang Chunming and The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi. Goldblatt also translated works of Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan, including six of Mo Yan's novels and collections of stories. He was a Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame from 2002 to 2011. He translated the following books for our publication: "Into the Desert" by Xue Mo "Yuwa" by Chen Yixin "The Cursed Piano" by Beila "Ward Four: A Novel of Wartime China" by Ba Jin "Lapse of Time" by Wang Anyi