2013年布克奖longlist （中英双语）
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当地时间7月23日，2013年英国布克奖(Man Booker Prize)长名单公布，共有13部小说名列其中。本年度入围作品风格各异，从共计151部初选作品中脱颖而出。评委会主席罗伯特·麦克法兰(Robert MacFarlane)表示，入围小说遍及“从传统到实验，从公元一世纪到今时今日，从100页到1000页，从中国上海到英国亨登”。评委会将于当地时间9月10日公布短名单，并于10月15日举行的晚宴上正式颁奖。
This year's prize judges can breathe out, briefly at least. Faced with scaling a gargantuan mountain of books – a daunting 151 of them – they have reached the first plateau, panting and aching no doubt, and whittled out a longlist for the 2013 prize. The “Man Booker dozen” comprises an eclectic list of 13 novels that will surprise and intrigue in equal measure.
入围的13名作家共来自7个国家，包括津巴布韦、新西兰、加拿大和马来西亚等；既有包括欧大旭(Tash Aw)、吉姆·克雷斯(Jim Crace)、茱帕·拉希里(Jhumpa Lahiri)、科伦·麦卡恩(Colum McCann)、夏洛特·门德尔松(Charlotte Mendelson)和科尔姆·托宾(Colm Tóibín)在内的知名作家，也有埃莉诺·卡顿(Eleanor Catton)、伊芙·哈里斯(Eve Harris)和多纳尔·瑞安(Donal Ryan)等文坛新人。
Of the various predictions that have been bandied about as to what might be on the list none have even got close. This year's judges, yet again, have shown themselves to be independent of fashion. Diverse doesn't quite do the longlist justice: seven different countries are represented on it and there is a strong hand of established authors selected (Tash Aw, Jim Crace, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Charlotte Mendelson and Colm Tóibín) mixed with first timers. Only Crace and Tóibín have previously appeared on Man Booker shortlists – Crace with Quarantine (1997) and Tóibín with The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and The Master (2004).
今年的长名单中没有作家是前布克奖得主，不过托宾和克雷斯二人曾入围短名单。托宾两度陪跑布克奖，凭借1999年的《黑水灯塔船》(The Blackwater Lightship)和2004年的《大师》(The Master)杀入布克奖短名单，但皆功亏一篑，距离摘取桂冠仅一步之遥。现年67岁的克雷斯曾于1997年凭借《隔离》(Quarantine)入围布克奖短名单。克雷斯在今年2月声称完成最后一部小说并宣布封笔，但也表示：“停止写作不代表停止生活。”此次提名或许会让他重新考虑这一问题。
Crace's inclusion is particularly welcome. It was only in February that he announced that he had written his last novel, saying: “Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, [it is] to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.” One can only hope that his nomination will cause him to reconsider.
这份名单中的文坛新秀表现抢眼，年仅27岁的女作家埃莉诺·卡顿(Eleanor Catton)所著的《发光体》(The Luminaries)厚达832页。不过，新生作家获奖仅出现在2008年，印度作家阿拉温德·阿迪加(Aravind Adiga)凭借处女作《白虎》(The White Tiger)成为该年度布克奖黑马。
The past couple of years have seen a strong showing by debut novelists and this year follows suit with three first timers – NoViolet Bulawayo, Eve Harris and Donal Ryan. The possibilty of winning come October may look daunting to them but it was only in 2008 that Aravind Adiga, another debutant, scooped the prize with The White Tiger.
布克奖是英国最重要的文学奖项，创办于1969年，每年颁发一次，只授予英国、爱尔兰与其他英联邦国家作者当年在英国公开出版的英语小说。入围作品分为长名单与短名单，长名单一般为十二三部，短名单则将长名单数目缩小到五部，最后从中选出得奖作品。布克奖奖金为5万英镑（约合47万人民币），由曼集团赞助。除了丰厚奖金外，布克奖往往也是作品销量的有力保证。
The list will have those who like to search for themes and coincidences in contemporary literature scratching their heads. As Robert MacFarlane, the chair of judges, points out, the novels on the list “range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon”. Good luck with finding common themes there.
So what conclusion can be drawn from the list? Well, simply that this year's judges – Robert MacFarlane, Martha Kearney, Stuart Kelly, Natalie Haynes and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst – have found works of the greatest quality in places as distant from one another as Zimbabwe and New Zealand, Canada and Malaysia and from writers at the start of their careers (Eleanor Catton, aged 28, whose book The Luminaries weighs in at a whopping 832 pages) to those who have been at the writing game for many years (Jim Crace, aged 67) – and every stage inbetween. This is surely too the first time a filmmaking Zen-Buddhist priest (Ruth Ozeki) has been included on the longlist. If ever a group of books offered proof that the Man Booker judges approach their task without a set of preconceptions, this is it.
2013年英国布克奖长名单
欧大旭(Tash Aw)，《五星豪门》(Five Star Billionaire)
诺维奥莉特·布拉瓦约(NoViolet Bulawayo)，《我们需要新名字》(We Need New Names)
埃莉诺·卡顿(Eleanor Catton)，《发光体》(The Luminaries)
吉姆·克雷斯(Jim Crace)，《收获》(Harvest)
伊芙·哈里斯(Eve Harris)，《查妮·考夫曼的婚事》(The Marrying of Chani Kaufman)
理查德·豪斯(Richard House)，《杀戮》(The Kills)
茱帕·拉希里(Jhumpa Lahiri)，《低地》(The Lowland)
艾莉森·麦克劳德(Alison MacLeod)，《未爆炸》(Unexploded)
科伦·麦卡恩(Colum McCann)，《横跨大西洋》(TransAtlantic)
夏洛特·门德尔松(Charlotte Mendelson)，《半个英国人》(Almost English)
露丝·尾关(Ruth Ozeki)，《时光的故事》(A Tale for the Time Being)
多纳尔·瑞安(Donal Ryan)，《打转的心》(The Spinning Heart)
科尔姆·托宾(Colm Tóibín)，《玛利亚的自白》(The Testament of Mary)
（译者：jiangyh）
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