爱丽丝·门罗-从家庭主妇到诺贝尔文学奖得主.doc

爱丽丝·门罗:从家庭主妇到诺贝尔文学奖得主 Melissa Block （Host）： And finally this hour， we celebrate the 110th winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature， Alice Munro. She is the 13th woman to win the award. The Canadian writer was 1）hailed by the Swedish academy as a master of the contemporary short story. Over her career， Munro has written 14 story collections and one novel. Munro began writing as a child in rural Western Ontario， raised in a family of tough Scottish 2）Presbyterians. Neda Ulaby （Byline）： So much of Alice Munros work is 3）autobiographical， like the short story that begins when a little girl is given some terrible news by her aunt.（Soundbite of Archived CBC Broadcast） Alice Munro： （Reading） Your mother has had a little stroke. She says not， but Ive seen too many like her. She’s had a little one and she might have another little one and another and another. And someday she might have the big one. Ulaby： Thats Alice Munro reading her story “The Ottawa Valley” on the CBC―the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation―in 1978. The aunt in the story then proceeds to comfort the little girl， if thats what you want to call it， with a story of her own. （Soundbite of Archived CBC Broadcast） Munro： （Reading） My mother took sick when I was only 10. She died when I was 15. In between， what a time I had with her. She was all swollen up. What she had was 4）dropsy. They came one time and took it out of her by the 5）pailful. Took what out. Fluid. Ulaby： Alice Munro hates it when her stories are described as 6）bleak. She told WHYYs “Fresh Air” in 1996 that she finds a range of emotions even in sicknesses or betrayals.（Soundbite of Archived Interview） Munro： Anything that surprises me， that makes me see anything differently， anything that gives me a gift is 7）entertaining. Wayson Choy： She startles me when I read her. Ulaby： Thats fellow Canadian and novelist Wayson Choy. Choy： Because I think Im settling in for a quiet story that will be well told， and then Im reali