诺奖获奖作家韩江：“直面历史创伤，揭露人类生命的脆弱” (2)Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2)
Some in the country were astonished to learn a Korean writer had won. “I could not believe my eyes when I saw this news,” said Park Sang-in, an office worker in Seoul. “No one had told us that we had a strong candidate this year.”
在韩国国内，一些人惊讶地得知是一位韩国作家获奖。“看到这个消息时，我简直不敢相信自己的眼睛，”首尔的上班族朴相仁（音）说。“没有人告诉我们，今年我们有一个很有希望的候选人。”
At the same time, many saw it as an appropriate choice. Han’s groundbreaking work has reshaped the literary landscape in South Korea, said Paige Aniyah Morris, co-translator of Han’s novel, “We Do Not Part,” which will be published by Hogarth in the United States in January.
与此同时，许多人认为这是一个合适的选择。韩江的小说《不做告别》(We Do Not Part)将于明年1月在美国贺加斯出版社出版，她的翻译之一佩吉·阿尼亚·莫里斯说，韩江的开创性作品重塑了韩国的文学格局。
“Han’s work has inspired a generation of Korean writers to be more truthful and more daring in their subject matter,” Morris said. “Time and time again, she has braved a culture of censorship and saving face, and she has come out of these attempts at silencing her with stronger, more unflinching work each time.”
“韩江的作品激励了一代韩国作家，让他们在题材上更真实、更大胆，”莫里斯说。“一次又一次，她勇敢地面对审查和保全面子的文化，她每次都以更强大、更坚定的作品，挫败那些让她闭嘴的企图。”
Han, 53, was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. Her father was also a novelist, but much less successful. The family struggled financially and moved frequently. In a 2016 interview with The Times, Han said her transitory upbringing “was too much for a little child, but I was all right because I was surrounded by books.”
现年53岁的韩江于1970年出生于韩国光州。她的父亲也是一位小说家，但远没有她成功。一家人经济拮据，经常搬家。在2016年接受《纽约时报》采访时，韩江表示，她那短暂的成长期“对一个小孩子来说太艰难了，但我还好，因为我被书围绕着。”
When Han was 9, her family moved to Seoul just months before the Gwangju uprising, when government troops fired on crowds of pro-democracy protesters, killing hundreds.
韩江九岁的时候，一家人搬到了首尔，几个月后发生了，政府军向支持民主的抗议者开枪，造成数以百计的人死亡。
The event shaped her views on humanity’s capacity for violence, Han said in the 2016 interview, and its specter has haunted her writing. In her 2014 novel “Human Acts,” a writer observes a police raid on a group of activists.
她在2016年的采访中说，这件事塑造了她对人类暴力能力的看法，它的幽灵一直困扰着她的写作。在她2014年的小说《少年来了》(Human Acts)中，一位作家目睹了警察对一群活动人士进行突查。
She also recalled seeing images of people who lined up to donate their blood to those who were injured in the uprising.
她还回忆起看到人们排队为在起义中受伤的人献血的画面。
“It was like two unsolvable riddles imprinted on my mind: How can humans be so violent, and how can humans be so sublime?” she said. “When I write novels, I find myself always returning to the theme of what it means to be human.”
“这就像两个无法解开的谜语，印在我的脑海里：人类怎么会如此残暴，人类又怎么会如此崇高？”她说。“当我写小说时，我发现自己总是回到身为人类意味着什么的主题上来。”
The novelist Hernan Diaz praised Han’s “unique ear for the rumors of history,” adding that she can “access the traumas that have shaped and bruised entire generations, and she does so without ever turning her novels into mere didactical tools.”
小说家赫尔南·迪亚兹称赞韩江“格外善于倾听历史的传闻”，并说，她可以“触及塑造和伤害了整整几代人的创伤，而且她从来没有把她的小说变成单纯的说教工具”。
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