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点击音频条，听 路易丝·格鲁克获奖后首个电话采访。 Author and poet Louise Gluck was apparently caught unaware Thursday morning during a phone interview to discuss her new Nobel Prize in literature. 2020年诺贝尔文学奖获得者、作家和诗人路易丝·格鲁克星期四早上在接受电话采访时，显然还处于懵圈状态。 The former U.S. poet laureate was reluctant to start chatting about the win because she hadn’t yet had her first coffee of the day, she told interviewer Adam Smith. A clip of the hesitant exchange, which she initially didn’t want recorded, was published online Thursday on the Nobel Prize’s social media accounts. 这位前美国桂冠诗人很不情愿接受亚当·史密斯采访，不愿谈论获奖，原因竟然是，当时太早了，她还没有喝第一杯咖啡呢。但这段录音周四还是发布在诺贝尔奖的社交媒体帐户上。 “Are we being recorded? Because I really can’t do this,” Glück said when she answered the phone. “I promise it won’t be anything onerous,”Smith responded, agreeing to Glück’s request to keep it short because, shesaid, “I really have to have some coffee and something right now. Two minutes.” “我们正在录音吗？因为我真的没法开始正式谈话，”格吕克接听电话时说。 史密斯回应道：“我保证不会有什么麻烦的，” 格吕克答应了的要求，“我现在得去喝杯咖啡，只谈2分钟吧”。 “I have no idea [what it means to me],” the77-year-old writer said of winning the prize. “My first thought was that I won’t have any friends, because most of my friends are writers. But then I thought, no, that won’t happen. “我不知道（对我意味着什么），”这位77岁的作家谈到获奖时说道。“我最初的想法是我将失去我的朋友了，因为我的大多数朋友都是作家。但后来我想，不，那不会发生”。 “It’s too new, you know. I don’t know really what it means. ...It’s a great honor and the recipients [some of whom] I don’t admire, but then I think of the ones that I do, and some very recent.” “这太突然了，你知道的。我真的不知道获奖将意味着什么。……这是一种巨大的荣誉，之前的获奖者有一些我并不喜欢，但是后来我想，也有些获奖者我是很欣赏到的，尤其是最近的。” It’s unclear who exactly she was referring to — literary giants and previous Nobel winners include Canadian short-story master Alice Munro, British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, Chinese magical-realist Mo Yan, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, a “radical” choice, was awarded the prize in 2016 as well. 目前尚不清楚她指的究竟是谁。文学巨匠和之前的诺贝尔奖获得者包括加拿大短篇小说大师爱丽丝·蒙罗、英国小说家石黑一雄、中国魔术现实主义者莫言、秘鲁作家马里奥·瓦尔加斯·卢萨和土耳其作家奥尔汉·帕慕克。美国歌手兼作词人鲍勃·迪伦也于2016年获得了该奖项，这是一种“激进的”选择。
The Swedish Academy’s prize committee announced Glück’s win in Stockholm Thursday, saying, “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” She is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison did so in 1993. 瑞典科学院诺贝尔奖委员会周四在斯德哥尔摩宣布格吕克（Glück）获奖时表述说：“她朴实无华的诗般嗓音，以朴实的美丽使个人的生活普世化。”自1993年托尼·莫里森获此殊荣以来，她是第一位获得该奖项的美国女性。 Practically speaking, Glück said that the honor would allow her to buy a new house in Vermont. (The Yale professor already has a condo in Cambridge, Mass.) 实际上，格吕克说，这一荣誉将使她能够在佛蒙特州购买一个新房子。（这位耶鲁大学的教授已经在马萨诸塞州剑桥拥有一间公寓。） “Mostly I am concerned for the preservationof daily life with people I love,” she said. “It’s disruptive. [The phone] is ringing all the time. It’s ringing now.” 她说：“我最关心的是与我所爱的人保持日常的关系。” “但获奖对我来说具有破坏性。[电话]一直在响。现在又响了。” As for those who are unfamiliar with her work (she said “many” are), Glück noted that there isn’t really a good place to start. 对于那些对她的作品不熟悉的人（她说“很多”），格吕克指出，确实不知道该从哪本书开始。 “There isn’t, because the books are very different, one from another,” she said. “I would suggest that they not read my first book unless they want to feel contempt.” 她说：“没有，因为书籍都是不同的，” “我建议不要读我的第一本书，否则他们会觉得不屑。” Glück, who also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for “The Wild Iris,” said she likes her more recent work, including her 2006 collection, “Averno,” and her last book, “Faithful and Virtuous Night,” for which she earned the 2014 National Book Award. 格吕克还在1993年以“荒野鸢尾”获得普利策奖，她说她喜欢她最近的作品，包括她2006年的作品集Averno”，以及她最近的著作《忠实与美德之夜》（Faithful and Virtuous Night），此书 2014年获得国家图书奖。 “Oh, heavens. That’s too big and it’s too early here. It’s barely 7 o’clock. I’m sure there’s things to say. And I’m sureI would have ideas, but ... is the two minutes over?” Glück asked, ending the interview. “哦，天哪。这事太重大了，现在时间还太早。才七点钟。我确定有话要说。而且我敢肯定我会有想法，但是，现在两分钟结束了吗？”格吕克问，随后结束了采访。 Hopefully, she put on a pot of coffee afterthat. 希望在采访结束后，她可以端上一壶咖啡。 |
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