莫言摘得诺贝尔文学奖,中国文学扬眉吐气

CHINESE author Mo Yan today won the Nobel Literature Prize for writing that mixes folk tales, history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced.

瑞典文学院宣布：中国作家莫言因为其融合了民间传说、历史和当代社会的写作，今天获得诺贝尔文学奖。

"Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition," the Swedish Academy said.

“从历史和社会的视角，莫言用现实和梦幻的融合在作品中创造了一个令人联想的感观世界。”瑞典皇家科学院说。

Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye and was born in 1955, "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary," the jury said.

莫言原名管谟业，出生于1955年，“魔幻现实主义融合了民间故事、历史与当代社会，”陪审团说。

Mo Yan has published novels, short stories and essays on various topics, and despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors, the Nobel committee noted.

莫言已出版各种主题的长篇小说、短篇小说和散文，尽管作为当代最重要的作家之一，他的社会批判显露在其寻根文学中，诺贝尔委员会指出。

In his writing Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth.

莫言在他的著作中借鉴了他年轻时候的经历，同时场景也设在他出生的省份。

Last year, the literature prize went to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.

去年，文学奖被授予瑞典诗人托马斯•特兰斯特勒默。

The literature prize is the fourth and one of the most watched announcements this Nobel season, following the prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry earlier this week.

文学奖是第四个奖项，是今年诺贝尔奖中最受瞩目的一个，在本周早些时候的医学、物理学和化学奖之后颁布。

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow, with the field of possible winners wide open, followed by the Economics Prize on Monday, wrapping up the Nobel season.

诺贝尔和平奖将在明天公布，该领域可能的获奖者存在很大猜测，其次是周一的经济学奖，今年的诺贝尔奖将就此结束。

As tradition dictates, the laureates will receive their prizes at formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of prize creator Alfred Nobel in 1896.

由于传统规定，12月10日获奖者将在斯德哥尔摩和奥斯陆的正式仪式上获得奖金，即创始人阿尔弗雷德•诺贝尔1896年逝世的周年纪念日。

Because of the economic crisis, the Nobel Foundation has slashed the prize sum to eight million Swedish kronor (US$1.2 million) per award, down from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001.

由于经济危机，诺贝尔基金会已经削减了奖金总额，自2001年以来颁发的1000万瑞典克朗减为每个奖800万瑞典克朗（约合120万美元）。