2023年9月28日,華裔小説家 Lan Samantha
Chang榮獲2023 年安尼斯菲爾德-沃爾夫小説奬,克利夫蘭基金會組織這次第88屆頒奬盛典。(The 88th
AnnualAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards Presented by the Cleveland
Foundation)
第二天還在克利夫蘭亞洲廣場,由美華協會協助舉辦了Lan Samantha Chang見面會活動。當晩主持人是Elaine Tso,華裔小説家
Lan Samantha Chang現場讀了她2022年創作的獲奬小説:《趙家》The Family Chao.
講了她成長過程所見所聞的故事。
Lan Samantha Chang 表示她非常榮幸和感動她榮獲了2023
年安尼斯菲爾德-沃爾夫奬,這不僅僅是榮譽,還是人們接受了我們的文化和習俗。雖然她出生在美國,但她親眼目睹父母在美國的艱辛努力,讓她上最好的學校接受最好的敎育。
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Lan Samantha
Chang是愛荷華州作家工作室主任,她花了十幾年時間創作了《趙家》。它將《卡拉馬佐夫兄弟》的情節移植到虛構的威斯康星州黑文市,講述了經營該鎮中餐館的家庭的故事。
著名作家喬伊斯·卡羅爾·奧茨的評語是這本小説爲“一部杰出的小説作品”,並表示她最近沒有讀過任何其他如此雄心勃勃或成就斐然的小説。還有麗塔·多夫(Rita
Dove)喜歡這本書的多面性。
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2天活動都有現場出售書籍,其中在中國城還有來自明日之星的舞蹈學校的精彩演出,麗華飯店提供了點心和食物,Lan Samantha
Chang親自簽名售書。
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簡介
Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán) is an American writer of
novels and short stories. She is the author of The Family Chao and
Hunger. For her fiction, which explores Chinese Americanexperiences,
she is a recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Berlin
Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award and the Rona Jaffe Foundation
Writers' Award.
Born
Appleton, Wisconsin[1]
Alma mater
Yale University,[1] Harvard University, University of Iowa
Genre
Novel, short story
Notable works
Hunger
Inheritance
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
The Family Chao
Notable awards
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2023)
Berlin Prize (2021)
PEN/Open Book Award
(2005) Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (1998)
Website
www.lansamanthachang.com
She is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the
University of Iowa and the Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
She is the first woman, and the first Asian American, to hold the
position
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