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基蘭·德賽圓了作傢母親的夢
在奬項宣佈後,布剋奬評審委員給予《失去之遺傳》高度贊賞,稱其為“一部偉大的小說,深深刻畫人性,文風淡雅帶點戲謔,針砭政治又犀利痛快”。
基蘭得奬的這部小說名為《失去之遺傳》,主要描寫後殖民時期的印度及同時代的美國,一名退休的法官孤身來到喜瑪拉雅山腳下,之後他的孫女搬去同住,但平靜生活很快被打破,尼泊爾叛軍發生動亂……
值得一提的是,基蘭的母親安妮塔·德賽也是一名作傢,而且先後提名過三次布剋奬,但都擦肩而過。
而女兒基蘭第一次獲提名就得奬,看來是青出於藍。
在得奬現場,基蘭也特別提到了自己的母親。她說:“這部小說也是在母親的鼓勵和陪伴下完成的。沒有她的陪伴、她的智慧及嫻雅的身段,我寫不出這本書來。對她的感激已非言語能形容。”
“我很想現在就告訴媽媽,不過現在恐怕還不行,因為她現在還在印度的一個村莊裏拜訪我的舅舅,那裏既沒有電話也沒有電視……”基蘭提到母親的時候,似乎有些控製不住自己的情緒,可能她的母親對她的影響實在很大。
譯文出版社是否引進還未定
與海外輿論一片詫異一樣,中國的外國文學專傢對基蘭·德塞的獲奬也感到意外。記者昨天采訪了滬上衆多學者,聽到最多的一句話就是“沒聽說過這個人”。復旦大學中文係教授王宏圖告訴記者,較之此前獲奬呼聲很高的莎拉·沃特斯來說,基蘭·德塞絶對是一位文壇新人,“獲奬者總是出人意料的新人,這或許正是布剋奬的意圖所在,評委們會認為給老牌名作傢錦上添花,是沒有必要的。”
上海譯文出版社曾出過多位布剋奬得主的作品。該社資深編輯黃昱寧告訴記者,她也是在有關布剋奬的英語廣播裏首次聽到基蘭·德塞這個名字的。黃昱寧表示,上海譯文出版社目前還沒有出版《失去之遺傳》的計劃,“我們會先看它是否符合中國讀者的閱讀習慣,再另行决定。”譯林出版社也暫無相關出版計劃。▲青年報
Biography
Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until she was 10. She and her mother then lived in England for a year, and finally moved to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.
In January 2010, the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk announced that he was in a relationship with Desai.
[edit]Work
Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie. It went on to win the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.
Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
In September 2007 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3. In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Asian Literature.
[edit]Bibliography
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 0-571-19336-6
The Inheritance of Loss, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2006, ISBN 0-241-14348-9