莫言避而不谈支持刘晓波的话题

Nobel literature prize winner Mo Yan dodged requests Thursday to repeat comments supportive of Chinese countryman and jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, and said censorship may be necessary to stop the dissemination of untrue rumors and insults but that he was against censoring the truth.

周四，记者请求诺贝尔文学奖获得者莫言重申他对身陷囹圄的中国异见人士刘晓波的支持，莫言回避了这一要求。莫言说，审查制度对于阻止不实传闻和诬蔑言论的扩散可能是必要的，但他反对封锁真相的审查。

Mo Yan, real name Guan Moye, repeatedly skirted calls to reiterate comments made at an October news conference in China when he said he hoped 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year jail sentence for advocating democratic reforms, would be freed soon.

莫言本名管谟业。记者要求其重复他在今年10月的资讯发布会上说的话，对此莫言一再回避。他当时说，希望2010年诺贝尔和平奖获得者刘晓波能尽快获释。刘晓波因主张民主改革被判11年有期徒刑，目前正在服刑。

'I've already issued my opinion on this matter. I think you can go online to do a search,' he said at a news conference Thursday in Stockholm, a day ahead of delivering his Nobel lecture.

周四，莫言在斯德哥尔摩举行的资讯发布会上说，我已经对这件事发表过我的看法，我觉得你们可以去网上搜一搜。莫言将于第二天发表获奖感言。

When pressed by reporters to repeat his position and explain why he had earlier said that Mr. Liu should be freed, Mo Yan─the pen name is Chinese for 'don't speak'─replied: 'I'm sure you know what I said already. Why do you want me to repeat? We'll leave it for time to judge.'

记者要求他重申自己的立场，并解释他当初为何说刘晓波应被释放，莫言答道：你们肯定知道我说了什么，为什么还要我重复呢？我们还是让时间来评判吧。

Mo Yan's measured comments illustrate the balance he seeks to strike between not overtly criticizing Chinese authorities and addressing criticism that he has been too cautious in standing up for freedom of speech.

莫言的谨慎言论表明，他一方面不想过多地抨击中国当局，一方面试图回应批评他在支持自由言论方面过于谨慎的说法，努力在二者之间把握分寸。

China heralded his win as an indication of the country's growing clout. Plans are under way to spend millions of dollars on a theme park around the writer's old home in Gaomi in Shandong province, marking a contrast with Beijing's treatment of Mr. Liu, whose 2010 Nobel Peace Prize win prompted protests from the government.

中国宣称，莫言的获奖象征其国家影响力日益增强。莫言的老家山东高密正在制定计划，将投资数百万美元在莫言故居附近建立一座主题公园。这与北京对2010年诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波的态度形成了鲜明对比。中国政府对刘晓波的获奖表示抗议。

This week, a group of more than 130 Nobel laureates in an open letter to new Communist Party leader Xi Jinping called for Mr. Liu's immediate release.

本周，130多位诺奖得主联名向中共新任领导人习近平发出公开信，呼吁立即释放刘晓波。

'I have always been independent. When I am forced to express my opinion, I will never do it,' Mo Yan said when asked if he would also sign the letter.

被问及他是否会在这封信上署名时，莫言说，我一直行事独立，要是被逼表达看法，我是永远不会做的。

Mo Yan's initial comments expressing sympathy for Mr. Liu received praise from former critics such as dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who had first accused Mo Yan of being an unworthy winner.

莫言当初对刘晓波表达同情获得了中国异见人士、艺术家艾未未等以前批评他的人的赞扬。艾未未曾经指责莫言不配获奖。

Mo Yan's win has sparked debate on whether the Nobel committee should consider values such as human rights and freedom of speech or merely stick to an author's literary body of work when picking winners.

莫言获奖引发了争论，即诺贝尔委员会在评选获奖者时是否应考虑作者在人权和言论自由等方面的价值观，还是仅仅着眼于其文学作品。

Mo Yan said his win was for literature, not politics.

莫言说，他是因为文学获奖，不是因为政治。

'I've never given any compliments or praised the system of censorship but I also believe that in every country of the world, censorship exists,' Mo Yan said. 'The only difference is in the degree and way of censorship. Without censorship, then any person could on television or online vilify others. This should not be allowed in any country. As long as it is not contrary to the true facts, it should not be censored. Any disinformation, vilification, rumors or insults should be censored.'

他说，我从来没有赞美过资讯检查这种制度，我也认为资讯检查在世界上每个国家都是存在的。但是这种检查的尺度，检查的方式不一样。如果没有资讯检查，任何一个人就可以在报纸上或者电视上污蔑其他人，诽谤其他人。这个我想在任何一个国家都是一样的。但是我希望所有资讯检查应该有一个最高准则：只要不违背事实真相的都不应该检查。违背了事实真相的，造谣和诬蔑的都应该受到检查。

The Chinese author's Communist Party membership and his post as vice president of the National Writer's Association puts him in the camp of mainstream writers working within China's autocratic political system. Some artists and writers have accused him of being too cozy with authorities to be worthy of a Nobel. Particular criticism has been levied against his contribution to the production of a handwritten special edition of Mao's 1942 talks on art and literature as well as his participation in a protest against the presence of dissident writers during a walkout of a German book fair.

但莫言的中共党员身份以及他担任中国作协副主席一职都令他被归入在中国专制的政治体制内进行创作的主流作家行列。一些艺术家和作家指责莫言同中国政府走得太近，不配获得诺贝尔奖。由于抄写了毛泽东1942年《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》，并在参加德国书展期间参与抗议中国异见作家出席书展，莫言受到外界批评。

Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller recently told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that Mo Yan had contributed to the censorship of other writers and that his victory was 'a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights.'

诺贝尔文学奖得主米勒(Herta Muller)最近在接受瑞典报纸《每日资讯》(Dagens Nyheter)采访时说，莫言从某种程度上维护了政府对其他作家进行审查的制度，他的获奖给了争取民主和人权的所有人一记响亮的耳光。

Mo Yan said he was at first 'a bit furious' at the criticism. 'But then gradually, I felt the persons criticizing me had really nothing to do with me.'

莫言说，诺奖公布后，刚开始我确实有一点不适应。包括在网络上很多对我的议论和批评，我也感到很生气。后来我渐渐感觉到大家关注的，议论的，批评的这个人跟我本人没有什么关系。

Others have defended Mo Yan, arguing that his decision to occasionally toe the party line has allowed him to stay relevant in China, unlike dissident writers whose books have little if any domestic impact. They also point out that many of his books are at least indirectly critical of the government.

其他人则替莫言辩护，称他偶尔遵从党的路线令他在中国得以发挥社会影响力。而异见作家的作品在中国国内则几乎没有影响力。他们同时指出他的很多作品至少间接批评了政府。

'We wouldn't know half as much about China's awful history in the villages of ordinary people if we didn't have Mo Yan's books and novels,' Swedish academy member Per Wastberg said in an interview.

瑞典文学院(Swedish Academy)成员瓦斯特伯格(Per Wastberg)在接受记者采访时说，如果没有看到莫言的作品和小说，中国乡村普通百姓的那段不堪回首的历史我们连一半都了解不到。

Mo Yan, who has been credited as one of the first to combine magic with gritty everyday life, was awarded the prize for work that, 'with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.'

莫言被认为是第一批将幻觉和粗砺的现实生活结合起来的作家之一。他获得诺贝尔文学奖是因为他的作品用“梦幻般的现实主义将民间传说、历史与当代融为一体。

Mr. Wastberg defended the academy's choice both on literary and political grounds, arguing that Mo Yan is one of the world's most remarkable story tellers and one of its sharpest contemporary social critics.

瓦斯特伯格从文学和政治两个角度替瑞典文学院的选择辩护，称莫言是当今世界最出色的讲故事高手之一，也是当代最犀利的社会批评家之一。

'He's very bold. In my interpretation, he even alludes to the massacre on Tiananmen Square, things you aren't allowed to write about in China,' Mr. Wastberg said.

瓦斯特伯格说，莫言非常大胆，按照我的理解，他甚至在作品中影射了天安门事件，这些事情你在中国是不允许写的。