英语奖项颁奖词.doc

英语奖项颁奖词 篇一：英语奖项颁奖词 Award Ceremony Speech Presentation Speech by Per W stberg, Writer, Member of theSwedish Academy, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, 10 December2012.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen,   Mo Yan is a poet who tears down stereotypical propagandaposters, elevating the inp>  North-eastern Gaomi county embodies China?s folk tales andhistory. Few real journeys can surpass these to a realm where theclamour of donkeys and pigs drowns out the voices of the people?scommissars and where both love and evil assume supernaturalproportions.   Mo Yan?s imagination soars across the entire human existence. Heis a wonderful portrayer of nature; he knows virtually all there isto know about hunger, and the brutality of China?s 20th century hasprobably never been described so nakedly, with heroes, lovers,torturers, bandits and especially, strong, indomitable mothers.He shows us a world without truth, common sense or compassion, aworld where people are reckless, helpless and absurd.   Proof of this misery is the cannibalism that recurs in China?shistory. In Mo Yan, it stands for unrestrained consumption, excess,rubbish, carnal pleasures and the indescribable desires that onlyhe can attempt to elucidate beyond all tabooed limitations.   In his novel Republic of Wine, the most exquisite of delicaciesis a roasted three-year-old. Boys have become exclusive foodstuff.The girls, neglected, survive. The irony is directed at China?sfamily policy, because of which female foetuses are aborted on anastronomic scale: girls aren?t even good enough to eat. Mo Yan haswritten an entire novel, Frog, about this.   Mo Yan?s stories have mythical and allegorical pretensions andturn all values on their heads. We never meet that ideal citizenwho was a standard feature in Mao?s China. Mo Yan?s charactersbubble with vitality and take even the most amoral steps andmeasures to fulfil their lives and burst the