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  • Canada's Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Literature Prize
  • 加拿大作家爱丽丝‧门罗获诺贝尔文学奖
  •   Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In announcing its decision Thursday, the Swedish Academy called the 82-year-old author the "master of the contemporary short story."
  • 加拿大短篇小说家爱丽丝‧门罗(Alice Munro)荣获 2013 年诺贝尔文学奖;瑞士诺贝尔奖委员会星期四宣佈这项决定时称 82 岁的门罗是 “当代短篇小说大师”。

  •   Munro began writing in her teens, and published many collections of stories over the decades. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Governor General's prize, Canada's highest literary honor. The Nobel is likely to be the capstone of her career.
  • 门罗 1931 年生於安大略省温格姆镇,不到 20 岁即开始写小说,几十年来发表了多部小说集,并多次获奖,其中包括加拿大的最高文学奖 “总督奖”。

  •   She said earlier this year that she was "probably not going to write anymore."
  • 诺贝尔文学奖很可能是门罗事业的顶点,她今年早些时候表示可能不会再写作了。

  •   Munro is the 13th woman to win the Literature prize.
  • 爱丽丝‧门罗是获得诺贝尔文学奖的第 13 位女性。

  •   She said she hoped the award "would make people see the short story as an important art; not just something you played around with until you get a novel written."
  • 她说,希望她的获奖会让人们看到短篇小说是个重要的艺术,并不是长篇小说创作前的练笔。

  •   The Nobel announcements continue Friday with the Peace Prize.
  • 诺贝尔奖委员会星期五将公佈今年的诺贝尔和平奖得主。

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  • Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai Wins Sakharav Prize
  • 巴基斯坦少女马拉拉荣获欧洲最高人权奖
  •   The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted for a Taliban attack for her efforts to promote education for women.
  • 欧洲联盟将欧洲最高人权奖颁发给巴基斯坦维权少女马拉拉‧尤萨法扎伊;马拉拉因為妇女争取受教育的权利而遭到塔利班武装份子的枪击。

  •   European Union lawmakers announced the winner of the $65,000 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Thursday in Brussels.
  • 欧盟星期四在布鲁塞尔宣佈把鼓励思想自由的 “萨哈罗夫奖” 颁发给马拉拉;奖金為 6 万 5 千美元。

  •   Malala was 11 when she became an activist for women's education, freedom, and self-determination in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where women were banned by the Taliban from attending school in 2009.
  • 马拉拉 11 岁时就成為活动人士,呼吁巴基斯坦斯瓦特河谷地区提倡妇女自由以及女性受教育和自决的权利;2009 年当地的塔利班禁止女孩上学读书。

  •   She began a blog, writing under a pseudonym, and quickly became a prominent voice for women's rights.
  • 马拉拉开始写部落格,以笔名撰文,很快成為维护女性权利的突出声音。

  •   She survived a nearly fatal Taliban assassination attempt while riding a school bus in 2012 and underwent multiple surgeries in Britain to remove a bullet to the neck and alleviate the swelling of her brain.
  • 2012 年她在校车上遭到塔利班武装份子几乎是致命的枪击;后来她在英国接受多次手术,去除了颈部的一颗子弹,并通过手术减轻脑部肿胀。

  •   Since then, she has remained in Britain but resumed her activism, addressing the United Nations in July and publishing a memoir earlier this week, on the first anniversary of her attack.
  • 她虽此后一直住在英国,但恢復了维权活动;她今年 7 月在联合国发表演讲,并在本週早些时候她被枪击一週年的时候出版了回忆录。

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