爱丽丝·门罗：从家庭主妇到世界文豪
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On 10th October， Swedish Academy announced that the famous Canadian female writer Alice Muo was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and called her “Master of contemporary short stories”. Alice Muo， 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 Muo， 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 “Muo’s life experience in Wingham” is a distinctive regional characteristic in her novels. Muo’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. Muo’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. Muo thinks highly of her father’s novel. Muo 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.
Muo’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 Muo， though inherited the family’s writing genes， kept this hobby to herself. By virtue of the talent of literature writing， Muo began to publish articles in magazines in succession. Muo recalled that her initial literature writing was that she adapted Andersen’s The Little Mermaid into a story with her beloved happy ending. Her early writing was mostly finished on the long way from her home to school， where she created her writing in her mind.
爱丽丝·门罗，原名爱丽丝·莱德劳，1931年7月10日出生在加拿大安大略省的温格姆小镇，门罗小说中的诸多故事都是从这个地方开始。《纽约时报》称，“小镇的生活经验”是门罗小说中一大鲜明的地域特色。门罗的祖上在19世纪从苏格兰移民到加拿大，每一代都有人擅长写作，家书则是他们最好的作品。门罗的父亲罗伯特·莱德劳是当地农民，主要饲养狐狸和貂；母亲则是一所学校的老师。作为著有《私人回忆录和正当罪人的自白》的詹姆斯·霍格的后裔，罗伯特在一周的劳作之外酷爱读书，甚至出版过一本关于拓荒者的长篇小说，门罗对此赞赏有加。在文学方面获奖后，门罗也常谦逊地表示自己在写作方面的成功可能是因为“在其他方面没有天赋”，而她超群的写作能力则是来源于家族遗传。
