爱丽丝·门罗-从家庭主妇到世界文豪.doc

爱丽丝·门罗:从家庭主妇到世界文豪 　　On 10th October， Swedish Academy announced that the famous Canadian female writer Alice Munro was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and called her “Master of contemporary short stories”. Alice Munro， now 82 years old， defeated two leading candidates： Haruki Murakami， a Japanese writer， and Adonis， a Syrian poet， to become the 13th female writer and also the first Canadian writer to get the honor in Nobel history. 2013年10月10日，瑞典学院在当地时间下午1点宣布加拿大著名女作家爱丽丝?门罗摘得2013年诺贝尔文学奖，颁奖词为“当代短篇小说大师”。现年82岁的爱丽丝?门罗击败早前的大热门――日本作家村上春树和叙利亚诗人阿多尼斯，成为诺奖历史上第13位女性作家，同时也是第1位获此殊荣的加拿大作家。 Writing genes of family inheritance 写作基因系家族遗传 Alice Munro， whose original name was Alice Laidlaw， was born on 10th July 1931 in Wingham， Ontario， Canada， where many of her stories took place. New York Times said that “Munro’s life experience in Wingham” is a distinctive regional characteristic in her novels. Munro’s forefathers migrated from Scotland to Canada in 19th century. In every generation， there is always someone who is good at writing and home letter is their best works. Munro’s father Robert Laidlaw is a local farmer， mainly raising foxes and minks while her mother is a school teacher. Robert， as the descendant of James Hogg， the author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner， is keen on reading. After a day’s labor he would always spare time to read and even published a novel about pioneers. Munro thinks highly of her father’s novel. Munro is very humble. After receiving awards in literature， she attributed her success in writing to that “she has no other talents” and said that her remarkable writing ability is of family inheritance. Munro’s hometown is relatively blocked， so people’s ideas are conservative. Very few of them go to college and the ones who become writers are extremely rare. Most girls become housewives after marriage. Thus， teenager Munro， though inherited the family’s writing genes， kept this hobby to herself. By virtue o