阿卜杜勒拉扎克-古尔纳，2021年诺贝尔文学奖得奖者

不用说中文世界，连英语世界，这位作家的信息也比较有限。我本人从未听说过这位作家。查下他的英文维基百科，发现也比较短。出于这位作家对于大家的陌生程度，我翻译了这篇维基百科，以供大家做些参考。译文错误之处请谅解一二。原文地址（访问时间2021年10月7日20:00）：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrazak_Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah

阿卜杜勒拉扎克-古尔纳

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948[1] in Zanzibar)[2] is a Tanzanian novelist, who writes in English and is based in the United Kingdom. The most famous of his novels are Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize, Desertion (2005), and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.[3]

阿卜杜勒拉扎克古尔纳（1948-）是一位坦桑尼亚的小说家，他用英语写作，居住在英国。他最著名的小说是1994年的《天堂》，这本书入选布克和惠特布莱德奖的最终候选名单。2005年的《逃亡》和2001年的《海边》入选布克小说奖的初选名单以及《洛杉矶时报》图书奖的最终名单。

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."*

在2021年，因为“他对（在不同文化与地域的鸿沟中的）殖民主义后果和难民命运的不妥协的与怜悯的深刻理解*”而获得诺贝尔文学奖。

（截止本文发布，这句话在媒体中的很多翻译在我看来至少是不准确的。当然我在这里的翻译也未必正确。）

Background and career

背景与职业

Born on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa, Gurnah went to Britain as a student in 1968.[2]

出生于桑给巴尔岛，古尔纳在1968年前往英国留学。

From 1980 to 1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He then moved to the University of Kent, where he earned his PhD in 1982. He is now a Professor and Director of Graduate studies there within the Department of English. His main academic interest is in postcolonial writing and in discourses associated with colonialism, especially as they relate to Africa, the Caribbean and India.

从1980年到1982年，古尔纳任教于尼日利亚的一所大学（Bayero University Kano）。之后他前往肯特大学，并于1882年在此获得博士学位。目前他是肯特大学英语系的教授和研究生院主任。他主要的学术趣向是后殖民主义写作（writing）和其他关于殖民主义的主题，尤其是与非洲、加勒比地区与印度相关的主题。

He has edited two volumes of Essays on African Writing, has published articles on a number of contemporary postcolonial writers, including V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Zoë Wicomb. He is the editor of A Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge University Press, 2007).`He has served as a contributing editor to Wasafiri magazine since 1987.[4]

他主编了两卷关于非洲写作（African Writing）的论文集，发表过一系列关于当代后殖民主义作家的论文，包括V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Zoë Wicomb。他是《萨尔曼·拉什迪指南》（剑桥大学出版社，2007年）的主编。自从1987年，他就作为《Wasafiri》杂志的一个撰写编辑。

Gurnah has supervised research projects on the writing of Rushdie, Naipaul, G. V. Desani, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid.

古尔纳管理关于如下作家的研究计划，即Rushdie, Naipaul, G. V. Desani, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid。

On 7 October 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."[5]

2021年10月7日，他获得2021年度的诺尔贝文学奖，“因为他对（在不同文化与地域的鸿沟中的）殖民主义后果和难民命运的不妥协的与怜悯的深刻理解”。

Writings作品

Novels小说

Memory of Departure (1987)

《离开的回忆》

Pilgrims Way (1988)

《朝圣之路》

Dottie (1990)

《多迪》

Paradise (1994)

《天堂》

Admiring Silence (1996)

《寻求安静》

By the Sea (2001)

《海边》

Desertion (2005)

《逃亡》

The Last Gift (2011)

《最后的礼物》

Gravel Heart (2017)

《砾石的心》

Afterlives (2020)

《后世》

Short stories短篇小说

My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa (2006)

《我生活在非洲农场的母亲》