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麦尔维尔诞辰200周年：他写出了一个时代的“自我”
今年，正值麦尔维尔诞辰200周年，麦尔维尔的短篇小说集首次在国内译介出版，让我们可以更全面地了解这个作家的精神世界。
2019-03-15
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在西欧人眼里，南斯拉夫遍地农民，丽贝卡·韦斯特打破了成见
丽贝卡·韦斯特，英国记者，旅行作家，《泰晤士报》，《纽约先驱论坛报》，《星期日电讯报》和《新共和国》等作者，也曾为为女权杂志《自由女》写书评，英国皇家文学学会本森奖章的获得者。
2019-03-15
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2019澳大利亚文学周作家推介：理查德•费德勒
Richard Fidler Richard Fidler is best known as the presenter of Conversations on ABC Radio, an in-depth, hour-long interview program that over the years has put him in the company of the world’s most prominent radio presenters. The program is the most popular podcast in Australia, with nearly four million downloads a month. He’s the author of two best-selling non-fiction books: Ghost Empire, which draws on his lifelong love of history and a journey with his son to tell the story of Constantinople; and Saga Land, co-written with Kári Gíslason, which grew from a radio program exploring the modern echos of Iceland’s traditional sagas, and was awarded the 2018 Indie Book Award for non-fiction. In another life Richard was a member of Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS), which played to audiences all over the world. Quote The arc of its lifespan is an awesome thing, touching the ancient world at one end and the Age of Discovery at the other. While western Europe struggled through the miseries of the Dark Ages, Constantinople blazed with light as a bastion of Roman law, Greek culture and Christian spiritualism. — The Ghost Empire Book Reviews Fidler's story leaves its readers with a sense of faith in the renewing, illuminating, social powers of historical narrative. The tale of the Ghost Empire has bridged the gap between a father and son, enriching the contemporary world with the echoes of the past. — The Sydney Morning Herald on The Ghost Empire Fidler has a knack for such cutting, weighty observation, at once light yet loaded with meaning and emotion. We already know he is an interviewer of great empathy; now we know he mirrors that skill on the page, too. — The Australian on The Ghost Empire 理查德•费德勒，澳大利亚广播公司著名主持人。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亚文学周作家推介：莫里斯•葛雷兹曼
Morris Gleitzman Morris Gleitzman is a bestselling Australian children’s author and the current Australian Children’s Laureate. He was born in England and emigrated to Australia when he was thirteen. He gained prominence through his columns in Australian magazines, and as a writer for popular television series, but true fame came with his writing for children, often focusing on uncomfortable or confrontational subjects in humorous and unexpected ways. His titles include Two Weeks with the Queen, Grace, Doubting Thomas, Bumface, Give Peas A Chance, Extra Time, Loyal Creatures, Toad Delight and the series Once, Then, Now, After, Soon and Maybe. Two Weeks with the Queen was adapted into a play which was produced around the world. Morris lives in Brisbane and Sydney, and his books are published in more than twenty countries. His books have won, among other awards, all of the Australian Readers Choice Awards voted for by children. Quotes Once I escaped from an underground hiding place by telling a story. It was a bit exaggerated. It was a bit fanciful. It was my imagination getting a bit carried away. It was a lie. — Once, Morris Gleitzman Book Reviews A resonant shot to the heart—Gleitzman delivers a sharp sense of what it must have been like to be a child during the Holocaust, forced to grow up far too quickly. — Kirkus Review on Once It's gentle, and humane, and ordinary, Once, even though its subject is the violent, the inhumane, and the twisted. Readers, child and adult alike, will fall in love with Felix and Zelda, the little girl he takes under his wing, and whose catchphrase is Don't you know anything? It gives dignity where once it was taken away. — Bookbag on Once 莫里斯•葛雷兹曼是澳大利亚畅销童书作家，也是现任“澳大利亚童书大使”。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亚文学周作家推介：许莹玲
Julie Koh Julie Koh (许莹玲) was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing. She is the author of two short-story collections: Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities. The latter was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Australian Science Fiction Foundation’s Norma K Hemming Award (Long Work). Julie was named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. She was a judge for the 2018 Stella Prize. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Best Australian Stories in 2014 to 2017. Her fiction has been published in the United States, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Julie is the editor of BooksActually’s Gold Standard, the librettist for satirical opera Chop Chef, and a founding member of experimental literary collective Kanganoulipo. （Photo Credit to Hugh Stewart） Quote I see two things at once. My regular eyes see a lizard about the length of my forearm, its chest expanding and contracting as it breathes. But my other eye sees a little grey boy. His belly is swollen and he looks at me with saucer eyes. — Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh Book Reviews ‘The Australian writer’s new work, Portable Curiosities, is a collection of whip-smart satirical tales that are as painfully funny as they are uncomfortably timely. … It’s perfect for our busy, scary times: easily digestible and, for all its madcap imagination, utterly true.’ — Guardian Australia on Portable Curiosities ‘Koh is a gifted satirist … Humour, weirdness, and social critique characterise almost all of the stories in this clever and highly original collection.’ – The Sydney Morning Herald on Portable Curiosities 许莹玲（Julie Koh）在悉尼出生，父母是马来西亚华裔。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亚文学周作家推介：格雷姆•辛浦生
Graeme Simsion Graeme Simsion is the Australian author of The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect and The Best of Adam Sharp (film rights optioned by Toni Collette/Vocab Films). The Rosie Project has sold more than three and a half million copies in more than forty countries, won or been shortlisted for half a dozen prizes, and was the only novel on Bill Gates’ list of “six books I’d recommend”. Last year Graeme co-authored with his wife, Anne Buist, the novel Two Steps Forward, with film rights optioned by Ellen DeGeneres/Fox Searchlight. Simsion got his big break in books in 2012, when The Rosie Project won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Before that, he was an IT and business consultant, and also has an extensive background in writing and producing short films and plays, mostly for Australian television and film festivals. Graeme’s newest novel, The Rosie Result, recently debuted at No. 1 in fiction novels in Australia. （Photo credit to Rebecca Rocks） Quote "Wow," she said, very quietly, looking back at the vastness of it all. Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway. — The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion Book Reviews Sharp dialogue, terrific pacing, physical hijinks, slapstick, a couple to root for, and more twists than a pack of Twizzlers — it's no surprise that The Rosie Project is bound for the big screen. But read it first. — NPR on The Rosie Project This good-hearted, pacy, thoroughly enjoyable novel takes a significant step towards showing that all human variants are a potential source of life affirming comedy. — Guardian on The Rosie Project 格雷姆•辛浦生，澳大利亚作家，著有《罗茜计划》、《罗茜效应》和《亚当•夏普的黄金时代》（The Best of Adam Sharp）（将由托妮•科莱特/弗卡伯电影公司改编电影）等作品。
2019-03-12
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关于阿斯特丽德
编剧/导演：帕尼勒·费舍尔·克里斯藤森 主演：阿尔芭·奥古斯特 每年11月14日，年近耄耋的作家阿斯特丽德·林格伦会收到数以千计的小读者贺信，信中大多画着一个可爱的红发女孩，那是她笔下最令人难忘的人物——长袜子皮皮。
2019-03-11
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伦敦的试炼
作为20世纪最伟大的诗人之一，艾略特的缺陷与怀疑，能让一切过着不完美人生的我们找到共鸣。
2019-03-11
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威廉·巴特勒·叶芝：“我们是最后的浪漫主义者”
“叶芝之乡” 踏上爱尔兰绿色的国土，漫步首都都柏林街头，就好像重读叶芝的华章，以往觉得陌生的地名和朦胧的意象都变得真切而清晰起来。
2019-03-11
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夏目镜子：我的先生夏目漱石与《我是猫》的写作
“猫”的家 从明治三十七年（1904）春开始到夏天的时候，夏目的大脑基本上好了不少，那种不顾后果的发作和癫狂也少了许多。
2019-03-08
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杰克•吉尔伯特：他的女人，他的诗，他的漫游和隐居
我们不能用通常的眼光看待杰克·吉尔伯特。
2019-03-06
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拉美“鲁迅”加莱亚诺：21世纪，我们以全球化之名扼杀正义
20世纪，拉美文学爆炸为我们留下了丰富的遗产，直到今天它仍旧在被不断发掘。
2019-03-06
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一本新传记，讲述朋友们眼中的马尔克斯
出生于哥伦比亚的美国记者西尔瓦娜·帕特诺斯特罗（Silvana Paternostro）最近出版了一本关于诺贝尔文学奖得主马尔克斯的新传记《孤独与同伴》（Solitude & Company）。
2019-03-06
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周大新：列夫•托尔斯泰的劝告
由于过着写作的生涯，在一些心情尚好的夜晚，我会走进和写作有关的梦境。
2019-03-04
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拒绝死亡，苏珊·桑塔格的最后时刻
假如这个地球上有谁能决定不死的话，那么非苏珊·桑塔格莫属。
2019-02-28
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玛格丽特·阿特伍德——她因她的聪明而臭名昭著
她的世界是细羽毛、鹦鹉螺、尖尖的雉堞、铸铁蔷薇、鲸鱼耳骨。
2019-02-28
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葡萄为何愤怒：美国大萧条时期的文学
美国著名小说家约翰·斯坦贝克曾凭借1939年出版的代表作《愤怒的葡萄》荣获1962年诺贝尔文学奖。
2019-02-28
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维克多·雨果：“善是精神世界的太阳”
2月26日是法国大文豪维克多·雨果的诞辰，他在法国甚至全世界都有很强的影响力，这位大文豪给世界人民留下了丰厚的精神遗产，他的不朽名著《巴黎圣母院》、《九三年》、《悲惨世界》等至今深受全世界读者喜爱。
2019-02-27
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尼采：孤独是我们的天性
如果从世俗的角度来看，尼采的一生是不幸的，他的结局是悲惨的。
2019-02-27
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普利策奖得主珍妮弗·伊根：晚上做梦时人人都是小说家
从照片上看，你会以为美国作家珍妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）有些难以接近：哪怕光看肩膀以上的特写，你也会感觉到她的高大与飒爽；鹰隼般的鼻梁、锐利的双目、硬朗的轮廓。
2019-02-26
