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Nobel laureate Tu Youyou's biography getting English edition

Xinhua, January 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

The biography of Chinese Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist Tu Youyou is going to get an English version, its publisher said on Sunday.

Alain Charles Publishing in Britain has begun translating the biography and is planning to print an initial 10,000 copies, according to the People's Publishing House, which released the Chinese version in December. [ Tu discovered artemisinin, widely used to fight malaria.

French publishing house Editions You-Feng is also working on a French edition. Endi