Ben Gu

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Ben Gu (Gu Ben, 顾犇) was born on December 11, 1961, in Shanghai, China. He is a librarian, translator, and library science researcher at the National Library of China. He writes under several pen names, including Mandarin Bookworm and Sanniu, and is also known in English as Benjamin Gu. He earned a Master of Science in Mathematics from Fudan University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Information Science from Renmin University of China in 2000. Since 1987 he has translated numerous scholarly works in musicology, philosophy, history, and library science, and has published books on library acquisitions and cataloging. He received a State Council award for his contributions to library science and has worked to internationalize Chinese library cataloging. He speaks English, German, French, and Italian, which support his research. In his youth he enjoyed electronics and music and excelled in mathematics, studying at Fudan and winning top prizes in Shanghai competitions. His grandfather came from Suzhou near Shanghai, and his parents were born in Shanghai in the 1930s.