走在死亡与爱情前面的声音（诺奖作品双语选读）_美文

走在死亡与爱情前面的声音（诺奖作品双语选读）

北京时间10月8日晚上7点，瑞典文学院常任秘书萨拉·达尼乌斯（Sara Danius）在瑞典文学院（The Swedish Academy）会议厅宣布了2017年诺贝尔文学奖获得者为白俄罗斯女作家、记者：斯韦特兰娜·阿列克西耶维奇。

她也是历史上第14位获得诺贝尔文学奖的女作家：

在随后接受采访时达尼乌斯这样评价她：

For the past 30 or 40 years she's been busy mapping the Soviet and post soviet individual, but it's not really about a history of events. It's a history of emotions – what she's offering us is really an emotional world, so these historical events she's covering in her various books, for example the Chernobyl disaster, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, these are in a way just pretexts for exploring the Soviet individual and the post-Soviet individual.

She's conducted thousands and thousands of interviews with children, with women and with men, and in this way she's offering us a history of human beings about whom we didn't know that much ... and at the same time she's offering us a history of emotions, a history of the soul.

谈及获奖，阿列克西耶维奇显得很淡定，一句话带过：

On the one hand, it's such a fantastic feeling, but it's also a bit disturbing.

倒是奖金，她觉得（我们也都觉得）还是很有用的：

It takes me a long time to write my books, from five to 10 years. I have two ideas for new books so I'm pleased that I will now have the freedom to work on them.