11月11日下午，英国当代文坛三位新锐作家凯瑟琳·奥弗林（Catherine OFlynn）和拉斐尔·塞尔伯恩（Raphael Selbourne），罗斯·瑞信（Ross Raisin）将在我校图书馆多功能报告厅举办文学讲座。
本次讲座由英国文化协会主办，英文学院承办。三位英国作家将带着其作品，近距离与读者分享他们的文学创作之路和人生经历。
三位新锐作家都是英国当代文坛上的耀眼新星，他们的处女作近年来先后在英国的重要文学奖上获得了新人奖的荣耀。这次广州行，他们将与热爱英国文学作品的年轻人作进一步的交流与分享，相信一定能够为广大学子提供深入了解英国当代文学新貌的窗口。活动详情请见海报。
具体安排
时间：2010年11月11日（星期四）14：30-17：00
地点：广东外语外贸大学（北校区）图书馆多功能报告厅
英方作家：Ross Raisin, Raphael Selbourne, Catherine OFlynn
关于英国新锐作家
Ross Raisin
1979年，Ross Raisin出生于英国约克郡的Keighley，在伦敦国王学院学习英国文学，其后更在金史密斯学院攻读创意写作硕士学位。2008年，Raisin出版的处女作小说Gods Own Country获得了卫报首作奖与John Llewellyn Rhys文学奖的提名，及并获得了Betty Trask处女文学奖。卫报评论人Justine Jordan称赞此作品让人“手不释卷”，让Raisin成为备受关注的年轻作家。2009年4月小说获得了星期日泰晤士报“年度新作家大奖”。
Raphael Selbourne
Raphael Selbourne出生在英国牛津的书香世家，前往意大利成为一名翻译之前他在Sussex大学攻读政治学。他曾经做过广告推销员及售卖小摩托车，更在中国当过老师。2004年开始定居英国西米德兰。在中断了伯明翰大学的伊斯兰研究学硕士课程后，他开始撰写小说Beauty，此小说为他赢得了2009年英国柯斯达文学奖（Costa Book Awards）小说新人奖的殊荣。
Catherine OFlynn
英国作家Catherine OFlynn出生于1970年。2007年她出版了首部小说What Was Lost并获得了广泛的好评。该小说以生活在80年代中期一个失踪小女孩的热情与乐观向上，深刻揭露了现代人生活的无奈与空虚，因此获得了多项重要文学奖的提名，2008年小说更在著名的柯斯达文学奖（Costa Book Awards）上获得了金奖。Catherine OFlynn也在2008年四月获得了英国Galaxy文学大奖年度新人的称号。她的第二本作品The News Where You Are 2010年7月1日在伯明翰正式发行。
关于英国文学奖项介绍
柯斯达文学奖（Costa Book Awards）
柯斯达文学奖是由柯斯达咖啡自2006年起主办，其前身为惠特比图书奖（The WhitBread Book Awards）。该奖项共分为小说奖、小说新人奖，诗歌奖、传记奖和童书奖五个奖项，其奖项内容、奖金及评选方式皆沿用惠特比图书奖。在英国，柯斯达文学奖、布克奖和橘子奖是在读者中最具影响力的三个文学奖项。
橘子奖文学奖 （Orange Book Awards）
一年一度的橘子文学奖成立于1996年，是全球第一个以女性作家为主的文学奖，奖金高达3万英镑，奖励全世界用英语写作的女性作家的最佳作品。
布克奖（Man Booker Prize）
英国最重要的年度小说评奖布克将代表了当今小说的最高水平，该奖项每年评审一次，获奖作品必须是前一年中出版的文学作品。自1969年设立至今，它成为小说作家追逐的最高目标并且是全世界最高级别的小说类奖项。
Ross Raisin
Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979, near Bradford and Ilkley. He studied English at King’s College in London and worked for a time as co-manager of a wine bar. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith’s University in London before his debut novel, Gods Own Country, was bought in a hotly-contested auction by Viking Penguin. It was published to great critical acclaim in 2008 and Ross was shortlisted for 8 separate awards for the book, winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2009. He lives in London and is currently finishing his second novel.
Raphael Selbourne
Born in Oxford within a distinguished academic family, Raphael Selbourne studied politics at Sussex University, before moving to Italy where he was a translator, sold TV advertising and scooters. He has also taught in China and since 2004 in the West Midlands, where he now lives. He interrupted an MA in Islamic Studies at Birmingham University to write Beauty, which describes a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi woman, back in England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Beauty is described as “a sharply rendered, compassionate and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural urban England”, and won the 2009 Costa First Novel Award.
Catherine O’Flynn
Catherine O’Flynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. She worked briefly in journalism, then at a series of shopping centres. She has also been a web editor, a postwoman and a mystery shopper. O’Flynn’s first novel, What Was Lost, drew on her experience of working in record stores – and of growing up as a child intrigued by clues, suspects and methods of detection. News Where You Are, her second novel, was released in July this year to much critical acclaim. She also edited Roads Ahead, Tindal Street Press’ 2009 anthology of young new writers.
