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英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)之旅：城市?生活?文學(xué)
2010年11月11-15日
說(shuō)起英國(guó)文學(xué)，很多讀者的腦海中會(huì)立刻浮現(xiàn)出莎士比亞、狄更斯、簡(jiǎn)?奧斯汀、夏洛蒂?勃朗特、拜倫、雪萊這些傳統(tǒng)文學(xué)大師的名字，而對(duì)英國(guó)當(dāng)代文學(xué)卻相對(duì)陌生。事實(shí)上，當(dāng)今英國(guó)文壇比以往任何時(shí)候都欣欣向榮，小說(shuō)、戲劇、散文、詩(shī)歌等各種文學(xué)類(lèi)別都得到了繁榮和發(fā)展。
2010年11月，英國(guó)使館文化教育特邀英國(guó)當(dāng)代文壇三位新銳作家，柯斯達(dá)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)邉P瑟琳?奧弗林（Catherine O'Flynn）和拉斐爾?塞爾伯恩（Raphael Selbourne）、星期日泰晤士報(bào)年度新作家大獎(jiǎng)獲得者羅斯?瑞信（Ross Raisin）來(lái)華，為中國(guó)讀者奉上一系列精彩的文學(xué)活動(dòng)。此次三位英國(guó)作家將帶著其處女作品，在廣州、深圳、北京和天津舉辦四場(chǎng)文學(xué)活動(dòng)，近距離與讀者分享他們的文學(xué)創(chuàng)作之路和人生經(jīng)歷，幸運(yùn)者有機(jī)會(huì)獲得作家送出的簽名著作！
活動(dòng)安排：
1、廣州行： 邂逅英倫文壇新力量——英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)作家交流講座
時(shí)間：2010年11月11日（星期四）14:30-17:00
地點(diǎn)：廣東外語(yǔ)外貿(mào)大學(xué)圖書(shū)館多功能報(bào)告廳（廣州市白云區(qū)白云大道北2號(hào)）
2、深圳行：邂逅英倫文壇新力量——英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)作家書(shū)友交流會(huì)
時(shí)間：2010年11月12日（星期五）20:00-22:00
地點(diǎn)：深圳書(shū)城中心書(shū)城周五書(shū)友會(huì)多功能廳（福田區(qū)福中一路，地鐵四號(hào)線少年宮站）
3、北京行：邂逅英倫文壇新力量——英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)作家交流會(huì)
時(shí)間：2010年11月14日（星期日）15:00-17:00
地點(diǎn)：北京單向街書(shū)店（朝陽(yáng)區(qū)朝陽(yáng)公園路6號(hào)院藍(lán)色港灣11號(hào)樓rs-16號(hào)）
4、天津行：英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)作家講座
時(shí)間：2010年11月15日（星期一）18：00-19：30
地點(diǎn)：天津外國(guó)語(yǔ)大學(xué) (中國(guó)天津市河西區(qū)馬場(chǎng)道117號(hào))
英國(guó)新銳文學(xué)作家介紹
拉斐爾?塞爾伯恩
Raphael Selbourne
處女作：《鏗鏘麗人(Beauty)》
“以純正的原汁原味捕捉了城市里真實(shí)的人性?！薄滤顾膶W(xué)獎(jiǎng)處女作獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)評(píng)委
拉斐爾出生在英國(guó)牛津一個(gè)顯赫的書(shū)香世家，他在Sussex大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)政治，隨后前往意大利成為一名翻譯。他曾經(jīng)做過(guò)廣告推銷(xiāo)員及售賣(mài)小摩托車(chē)，更在中國(guó)當(dāng)過(guò)老師。2004年開(kāi)始定居英國(guó)西米德蘭。在中斷了伯明翰大學(xué)的伊斯蘭研究學(xué)碩士課程后，他開(kāi)始撰寫(xiě)小說(shuō)Beauty《鏗鏘麗人》，講述了一個(gè)孟加拉穆斯林女孩逃離強(qiáng)迫婚姻的故事，精準(zhǔn)地描繪了一個(gè)富有同情心和挑戰(zhàn)性的擁有多元文化的英格蘭都市。該小說(shuō)為他贏得了2009年英國(guó)柯斯達(dá)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)（Costa Book Awards）小說(shuō)新作獎(jiǎng)的殊榮。
凱瑟琳?奧弗林
Catherine O'Flynn
處女作：《那些逝去的(What Was Lost)》
“做為一部處女作，《那些逝去的》寫(xiě)的十分精彩”——英國(guó)獨(dú)立報(bào)
凱瑟琳出生于1970年，在伯明翰長(zhǎng)大，在家里六個(gè)小孩中排名小幺，父母以經(jīng)營(yíng)著糖果店為生。凱瑟琳曾經(jīng)當(dāng)過(guò)記者，網(wǎng)站編輯，郵遞員，還在多個(gè)購(gòu)物中心打過(guò)工。2007年，凱瑟琳以自己成長(zhǎng)的經(jīng)歷以及在唱片公司打工的際遇為線索，寫(xiě)下了其首部小說(shuō)What Was Lost《那些逝去的》并獲得了廣泛的好評(píng)。該小說(shuō)以生活在80年代中期一個(gè)失蹤小女孩的熱情與樂(lè)觀向上，深刻揭露了現(xiàn)代人生活的無(wú)奈與空虛，因此獲得了多項(xiàng)重要文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)的提名，小說(shuō)更在2008年的柯斯達(dá)圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)（Costa Book Awards）上獲得了金獎(jiǎng)。凱瑟琳也獲得了當(dāng)年英國(guó)Galaxy文學(xué)大獎(jiǎng)年度新人的稱(chēng)號(hào)。她的第二本作品The News Where You Are 2010年7月1日在伯明翰正式發(fā)行，并獲得了一致的好口碑。
羅斯?瑞信
Ross Raisin
處女作：《狂野的荒原(God's Own Country)》
“該書(shū)是語(yǔ)言學(xué)的盛宴，作者的自創(chuàng)詞語(yǔ)讓人忍俊不禁。”——英國(guó)衛(wèi)報(bào)
羅斯?瑞信1979年出生于約克郡的Keighley，在倫敦國(guó)王學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)英國(guó)文學(xué)，并成為一名兼職的紅酒吧經(jīng)理。其后羅斯前往金史密斯學(xué)院攻讀創(chuàng)意寫(xiě)作碩士學(xué)位。2008年，羅斯出版了他的處女作小說(shuō)God's Own Country《狂野的荒原》，小說(shuō)得到了廣大好評(píng)，并分別獲得了8個(gè)文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)的提名，獲得了衛(wèi)報(bào)首作獎(jiǎng)與John Llewellyn Rhys文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)的提名，并獲得了Betty Trask處女文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)及星期日泰晤士報(bào)“年度新作家大獎(jiǎng)”。衛(wèi)報(bào)評(píng)論人Justine Jordan稱(chēng)贊此作品讓人“手不釋卷”，羅斯目前在倫敦生活，正準(zhǔn)備推出其第二本小說(shuō)作品。
NEW WRITINGS FROM UK: CITY, LIFE AND LITERATURE
The Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy warmly invites, three of the UK’s new writing authors, to visit China this November to present to Chinese readers a series of exciting literary activities.
British literature is currently in a particularly vibrant period with many energetic and innovative works filling and enriching the modern British literary scene. Ross Raisin, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2009; Raphael Selbourne and Catherine O’Flynn, Costa Award winning novelists in recent years, as representatives of contemporary British literature writers will offer 4 literary activities in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Tianjin to share the living stories in their writing careers. Join us and you will have the chance to get a original copy of the novels signed by the writers.
Events:
1, Guangzhou：Dialogues with the Literature Rising Stars
Date：1430-1700, Friday, 11th November 2010
Venue：Multi-function Room, Library, Guangdong University of Foreign Study
2, Shenzhen：Dialogues with the Literature Rising Stars
Date：2000-2200, Friday, 12th November 2010
Venue：Multi-function Room, Friday Reader’s Club, Shenzhen Book City
3, Beijing: Dialogues with the Literature Rising Stars
Date：Sunday, 14th November 2010
Venue：OneWayStreet Bookstore
4, Tianjin：
Date: 18:00-19:30, Monday, 15th November 2010
Venue: Tianjin Foreign Studies University
New Writers from UK
Raphael Selbourne
First published book: Beauty
“Captures the raw humanity of inner city life with extraordinary authenticity”— Judges of the Costa First Novel Award
Born in Oxford within a distinguished academic family, Raphael Selbourne studied politics at Sussex University, before moving to Italy where he was a translator, sold TV advertising and scooters. He has also taught in China and since 2004 in the West Midlands, where he now lives. He interrupted an MA in Islamic Studies at Birmingham University to write Beauty, which describes a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi woman, back in England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Beauty is described as “a sharply rendered, compassionate and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural urban England”, and won the 2009 Costa First Novel Award.
Catherine O'Flynn
First published book: What Was Lost
“Catherine O'Flynn's poignant first novel explores bereavement and loneliness, what it is to be invisible and what it takes to be found. Her prose is taut, and the story intricately plotted and compelling.” Francesca Segal, The Telegraph
Catherine O’Flynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. She worked briefly in journalism, then at a series of shopping centres. She has also been a web editor, a postwoman and a mystery shopper. O’Flynn’s first novel, What Was Lost, drew on her experience of working in record stores – and of growing up as a child intrigued by clues, suspects and methods of detection. News Where You Are, her second novel, was released in July this year to much critical acclaim. She also edited Roads Ahead, Tindal Street Press’ 2009 anthology of young new writers.
Ross Raisin
First published book: God's Own Country
“… a joy to read for the dialect alone, a linguistic feast as chewy as parkin, full of beltengers and hubbleshoos, nimrods and charvers.”— Justine Jordan，Guardian
Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979, near Bradford and Ilkley. He studied English at King’s College in London and worked for a time as co-manager of a wine bar. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith’s University in London before his debut novel, God's Own Country, was bought in a hotly-contested auction by Viking Penguin. It was published to great critical acclaim in 2008 and Ross was shortlisted for 8 separate awards for the book, winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2009. He lives in London and is currently finishing his second novel.
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