阅读基兰·德赛 Kiran Desai在小说之家的作品!!! |
基兰·德赛圆了作家母亲的梦
在奖项宣布后,布克奖评审委员给予《失去之遗传》高度赞赏,称其为“一部伟大的小说,深深刻画人性,文风淡雅带点戏谑,针砭政治又犀利痛快”。
基兰得奖的这部小说名为《失去之遗传》,主要描写后殖民时期的印度及同时代的美国,一名退休的法官孤身来到喜玛拉雅山脚下,之后他的孙女搬去同住,但平静生活很快被打破,尼泊尔叛军发生动乱……
值得一提的是,基兰的母亲安妮塔·德赛也是一名作家,而且先后提名过三次布克奖,但都擦肩而过。
而女儿基兰第一次获提名就得奖,看来是青出于蓝。
在得奖现场,基兰也特别提到了自己的母亲。她说:“这部小说也是在母亲的鼓励和陪伴下完成的。没有她的陪伴、她的智慧及娴雅的身段,我写不出这本书来。对她的感激已非言语能形容。”
“我很想现在就告诉妈妈,不过现在恐怕还不行,因为她现在还在印度的一个村庄里拜访我的舅舅,那里既没有电话也没有电视……”基兰提到母亲的时候,似乎有些控制不住自己的情绪,可能她的母亲对她的影响实在很大。
译文出版社是否引进还未定
与海外舆论一片诧异一样,中国的外国文学专家对基兰·德塞的获奖也感到意外。记者昨天采访了沪上众多学者,听到最多的一句话就是“没听说过这个人”。复旦大学中文系教授王宏图告诉记者,较之此前获奖呼声很高的莎拉·沃特斯来说,基兰·德塞绝对是一位文坛新人,“获奖者总是出人意料的新人,这或许正是布克奖的意图所在,评委们会认为给老牌名作家锦上添花,是没有必要的。”
上海译文出版社曾出过多位布克奖得主的作品。该社资深编辑黄昱宁告诉记者,她也是在有关布克奖的英语广播里首次听到基兰·德塞这个名字的。黄昱宁表示,上海译文出版社目前还没有出版《失去之遗传》的计划,“我们会先看它是否符合中国读者的阅读习惯,再另行决定。”译林出版社也暂无相关出版计划。▲青年报
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