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'It was an easy decision': Swedish Academy
Published: 11 Oct 12 15:54 CETThe Local’s Rebecca Martin catches
up with Peter Englund, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy (
Svenska Akademien), to find out more about why one should read the work of
2012’s Nobel Prize winner in literature, Mo Yan. “One of the things
that is special with this year’s winner is that he depicts – from within -
a world that most of us don’t have access to. He is originally a peasant
boy, born into a farming family and he worked in the fields until he was
twelve years old,” Englund told The Local. According to Englund there
were no harsh deliberations when the committee took the decision, almost a
week ago: ”I would say that it was an easy decision, although these
things are always somewhat complicated. That’s how it always is, though.
You have five authors, often writing in different genres and styles. So I
would say that it’s complicated but not difficult."The work of 57-year-old
Yan, who became the first Chinese national to ever win the prize, explores
the brutality and darkness of 20th-century Chinese society with a cynical
wit.He is perhaps best-known abroad for his 1987 novella "Red Sorghum", a
tale of the brutal violence that plagued the eastern China countryside -
where he grew up - during the 1920s and 30s.The story was later made into an
acclaimed film by leading Chinese director Zhang Yimou.Meanwhile, Englund
explained that the translations of Yan’s work into Swedish does his words
justice. “We are lucky to have a Chinese speaker on the panel and he
has assured us that the translations are very good,” Englund said.
However, with the decision being reached a week ago - it hasn’t been easy
to keep it a secret with the wild speculations and the betting that goes on
online and in the media. “It is something we need to think about and
in later years we have had to become even stricter when it comes to secrecy,
” Englund said.To readers as of yet unfamiliar with Yan’s work, Englund
recommends starting with "The Garlic Ballads", first published in 1993:
;“You should read Mo Yan when you are ready to face a whole new world,
inhabited by new people and showing new ways of looking at the world,"
Englund told The Local.“But above all you should read him because he is a
damned good author!"Rebecca Martin/AFP
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发帖数: 1197 | 2 这种easy decision还可以给很多中国作家，包括钱钟书、沈从文等，应该更easy多了
。但可惜并没有看到瑞典学院早先make任何easy决定。 | f*******g
发帖数: 1290 | 3 With China, bruality is what they look after but civility is what they abhor
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发帖数: 6727 | 4 钱钟书就一部长篇几个短篇，怎么可能，他搞文学基本上是玩票，当然丫是一大票友
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: 这种easy decision还可以给很多中国作家，包括钱钟书、沈从文等，应该更easy多了
: 。但可惜并没有看到瑞典学院早先make任何easy决定。
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