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2019澳大利亞文學周作家推介：理查德?費德勒
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?費德勒，澳大利亞廣播公司著名主持人。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亞文學周作家推介：莫里斯?葛雷茲曼
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?葛雷茲曼是澳大利亞暢銷童書作家，也是現任“澳大利亞童書大使”。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亞文學周作家推介：許瑩玲
Julie Koh Julie Koh (許瑩玲) 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 許瑩玲（Julie Koh）在悉尼出生，父母是馬來西亞華裔。
2019-03-12
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2019澳大利亞文學周作家推介：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，澳大利亞作家，著有《羅茜計劃》、《羅茜效應》和《亞當?夏普的黃金時代》（The Best of Adam Sharp）（將由托妮?科萊特/弗卡伯電影公司改編電影）等作品。
2019-03-12
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關于阿斯特麗德
編劇/導演：帕尼勒·費舍爾·克里斯藤森 主演：阿爾芭·奧古斯特 每年11月14日，年近耄耋的作家阿斯特麗德·林格倫會收到數以千計的小讀者賀信，信中大多畫著一個可愛的紅發女孩，那是她筆下最令人難忘的人物——長襪子皮皮。
2019-03-11
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倫敦的試煉
作為20世紀最偉大的詩人之一，艾略特的缺陷與懷疑，能讓一切過著不完美人生的我們找到共鳴。
2019-03-11
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威廉·巴特勒·葉芝：“我們是最后的浪漫主義者”
“葉芝之鄉” 踏上愛爾蘭綠色的國土，漫步首都都柏林街頭，就好像重讀葉芝的華章，以往覺得陌生的地名和朦朧的意象都變得真切而清晰起來。
2019-03-11
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夏目鏡子：我的先生夏目漱石與《我是貓》的寫作
“貓”的家 從明治三十七年（1904）春開始到夏天的時候，夏目的大腦基本上好了不少，那種不顧后果的發作和癲狂也少了許多。
2019-03-08
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杰克?吉爾伯特：他的女人，他的詩，他的漫游和隱居
我們不能用通常的眼光看待杰克·吉爾伯特。
2019-03-06
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拉美“魯迅”加萊亞諾：21世紀，我們以全球化之名扼殺正義
20世紀，拉美文學爆炸為我們留下了豐富的遺產，直到今天它仍舊在被不斷發掘。
2019-03-06
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一本新傳記，講述朋友們眼中的馬爾克斯
出生于哥倫比亞的美國記者西爾瓦娜·帕特諾斯特羅（Silvana Paternostro）最近出版了一本關于諾貝爾文學獎得主馬爾克斯的新傳記《孤獨與同伴》（Solitude & Company）。
2019-03-06
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周大新：列夫?托爾斯泰的勸告
由于過著寫作的生涯，在一些心情尚好的夜晚，我會走進和寫作有關的夢境。
2019-03-04
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拒絕死亡，蘇珊·桑塔格的最后時刻
假如這個地球上有誰能決定不死的話，那么非蘇珊·桑塔格莫屬。
2019-02-28
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瑪格麗特·阿特伍德——她因她的聰明而臭名昭著
她的世界是細羽毛、鸚鵡螺、尖尖的雉堞、鑄鐵薔薇、鯨魚耳骨。
2019-02-28
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葡萄為何憤怒：美國大蕭條時期的文學
美國著名小說家約翰·斯坦貝克曾憑借1939年出版的代表作《憤怒的葡萄》榮獲1962年諾貝爾文學獎。
2019-02-28
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維克多·雨果：“善是精神世界的太陽”
2月26日是法國大文豪維克多·雨果的誕辰，他在法國甚至全世界都有很強的影響力，這位大文豪給世界人民留下了豐厚的精神遺產，他的不朽名著《巴黎圣母院》、《九三年》、《悲慘世界》等至今深受全世界讀者喜愛。
2019-02-27
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尼采：孤獨是我們的天性
如果從世俗的角度來看，尼采的一生是不幸的，他的結局是悲慘的。
2019-02-27
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普利策獎得主珍妮弗·伊根：晚上做夢時人人都是小說家
從照片上看，你會以為美國作家珍妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）有些難以接近：哪怕光看肩膀以上的特寫，你也會感覺到她的高大與颯爽；鷹隼般的鼻梁、銳利的雙目、硬朗的輪廓。
2019-02-26
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迪倫馬特、帝國及其叛徒
第一次知道弗里德里希·迪倫馬特（Friedrich Dürrenmatt，1921—1990），是從王小波的書里。
2019-02-21
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海明威的巴黎：他要掀起一場“文學革命”
如果說起中國讀者最熟悉的美國作家，恐怕海明威的大名是最容易被想起來的，甚至就連不讀小說的人，也知道有個叫海明威的美國硬漢，寫了一部叫《老人與海》的小說，拿了諾貝爾獎。
2019-02-21
