Eric Abrahamsen (born 1978) is an American award-winning literary translator from Chinese to English.

[1] Abrahamsen studied Chinese at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing from 2001, and remained in China until 2016, translating and promoting Chinese literature.

[2] Abrahamsen has translated numerous works of varying lengths, which have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, n+1, and Paper Republic.

In his spare time, Abrahamsen is also a programmer active in Emacs community.

He's the author of Org-Translate, an Org-based translation environment.