《狼图腾》摘取亚洲文学大奖

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《狼图腾》摘取亚洲文学大奖

中国作家姜戎根据自己在蒙古插队的真实体验写成的《狼图腾》一书摘取了首届曼氏亚洲文学大奖。

姜戎今年62岁，文化大革命期间曾经是第一批到蒙古草原插队的知识青年。他的插队经历长达11年。

《狼图腾》一书就是根据姜戎那个时代的亲身经验写成的。

该书通过描写偏远的蒙古草原上牧民的故事以及他们与狼的关系探索人类在自然中的位置。

《狼图腾》战胜了另外四个候选书目摘取了亚洲文学奖。

但是由于健康原因，姜戎未能参加今天在香港举行的颁奖晚宴。

姜戎在一份声明中表示，他很高兴自己的作品能够获奖，并希望自己的获奖能够激励亚洲的作家。

姜戎还说，他用了30年的时间思索，用了6年的时间才写成《狼图腾》，他唯一的愿望是写出一部引人的故事。

曼氏亚洲文学奖由金融公司"曼氏集团"赞助，奖金1万美元。该公司也是享有盛誉的英语文学奖"布克奖（Booker Prize）"的赞助商

曼氏亚洲文学奖的宗旨是要"放大亚洲作家在英语世界中音量"。

大玉儿

BBC News Nov 11, 2007

Chinese author Jiang Rong wins first Man Asian Literary Prize

HONG KONG - CHINESE author Jiang Rong beat four other shortlisted Asian writers to become the first winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for his best-selling novel 'The Wolf Totem'. The US$100,000 (S$144,205) literary award is newly established to recognize the region's best literature that has not yet been published in English.  Jiang's 'Wolf Totem', first published in Chinese, is about the struggle of life during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and draws on his personal experience in the Mongolian grasslands.  The English edition of the book is scheduled for publication in March next year.  Jiang, born in Jiangsu in 1946, spent 11 years living with nomadic communities in the Chinese border grassland region.  The Beijing-based writer was not able to receive the award in person at a ceremony held in Hong Kong Saturday night because of ill health. But in a statement, Jiang said he was thrilled and honoured that his Chinese story caught the attention of the judges.  'I spent 30 years thinking, and six years writing, 'Wolf Totem'. During that process, I hoped to write a story that would appeal to the Chinese sensibility,' Jiang said.  Adrienne Clarkson, who led a panel of three judges, hailed 'Wolf Totem' as a 'panoramic novel' of life in the Mongolian grasslands during the Cultural Revolution period.  'The slowly developing narrative is rendered in vivid detail and has a powerful cumulative effect,' the former governor general of Canada said in a statement.  The four other writers shortlisted for the prize were Xu Xi of Hong Kong, Jose Dalisay Jr of the Philippines, Indian author Reeti Gadekar, and Nu Nu Yi Inwa from Myanmar.  The annual prize is being sponsored by the London-based financial services company Man Group. -- AP

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大玉儿

THE STRAITS TIMES Nov 11, 2007

Chinese writer wins first Man Asian literary prize

HONG KONG - CHINESE author Jiang Rong on Saturday won Asia's first major literary prize, launched by the backers of the world-renowned Booker prize to give a greater global voice to the continent's often unheralded talent. Jiang, 62, scooped the US$10,000 (S$15,000) Man Asian Literary Prize and potential international recognition for his novel Wolf Totem.  'It's a very original book, it's on a grand scale and it deals with large questions,' said Professor Nicholas Jose of Australia's University of Adelaide, who was one of the judges.  'Sometimes a book takes you into seriously different territory in a way that you will remember and Wolf Totem does that,' he said.  The prize is sponsored by the Man Group - the financial group behind the world-renowned Booker Prize. Publishing giant Penguin is set to release Jiang's work next March and it believes the book could become a global hit.  'He was completely unknown, this book came completely left field,' said Ms Jo Lusby, general manager for Penguin China.  'Something in your gut ... and publisher's sensibility screams out, this is really unusual and there's something that people have never seen from China,' Ms Lusby added.  Jiang's book, set on the desolate grasslands of inner Mongolia, tells the tale of nomads and settlers and their relation with wolves during China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, exploring man's place in nature.  The ailing Jiang, who was not able to attend the black-tie awards dinner at a luxury Hong Kong restaurant, said in a statement that he was thrilled and hoped the prize would inspire Asian writers.  'I spent 30 years thinking, and 6 years writing Wolf Totem, and my only hope was to produce an appealing story,' he said.  Jiang was chosen from a quintet of short listed authors who are relative unknowns outside their home countries. The others were Burmese author Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Hong Kong's Xu Xi, Jose Dalisay Jr. of the Philippines and Reeti Gadekar from India.  'I would hope this prize would achieve a profile for Asian literature ... what this may give them is an international audience and that is always for the good,' said Ms Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese-Canadian and former Governor-General of Canada, who chaired the judging panel.  Man Group is known for sponsoring the prestigious Booker Prize, which rewards the best novel of the year by a writer from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. The Booker, founded in 1969, has gone in the past to writers such as Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee. -- REUTERS

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