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Christina Perry Rossi receives the Cervantes Prize
Cristina Peri Rossi recently won the Premio Miguel de Cervantes 2021. Previously, Perry Rossi had never won a relatively important literary award. However, after 2000, Perry Rossi's efforts in areas such as public interests were encouraged and commended by the United Nations and the Uruguayan government. Since 1976, the Cervantes Prize has been awarded to only five women, the other four being Dulce María Loynaz, Ana María Matute, Elena Poniatowska, and Ida Vitale, all of whom took place in 2010 and beyond. To date, the Cervantes Prize has been awarded to only two Uruguayan writers, in addition to Perry Rossi and Juan Carlos Onetti and Ida Vitale.
Christina Perry Rossi
Other Cervantes Laureates since 2010 (in reverse chronological order): Francisco Brines, Joan Margarit i Consarnau, Ida Vitale, Sergio Ramirez, Eduardo Mendoza, Fernando Mendoza, Eduardo Fernando del Paso, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Nicanor Parra, Ana María Matute.
Born into a small, middle-class family in Montevideo, Perry Rossi was born in Uruguay, a middle-class trap, with her father as a worker and her mother as a teacher, both descendants of Italian immigrants. For as long as she can remember, perry Rossi's family had economic problems, but the Uruguayan Social Democratic Party provided free education for every Uruguayan citizen, and Perry Rossi was spared from dropping out of school. Perry Rossi frequented and even spent the night at the National Library, a bohemian world of prostitutes, drunks, and Arabs. Perry Rossi seemed unable to afford any books on paper, and once she was drawn to "The Song of the Sad Cafe" in the window of a large bookstore, but when she asked for the price of the book, she realized that the book seemed unattainable. Later, Perry Rossi attended Rodo Public Secondary School and Artigas Normal College, where Perry Rossi studied comparative literature, and ten years after graduation, she taught at various institutions. "What fascinates me is the symbolic (transformational) ability of human beings, or the origin of language. When I imagine a cross, I am ecstatic, e.g. Christianity, medicine? I found that I fell in love with words, no matter what language they were. I fell in love with their sounds. In a lengthy interview, Perry Rossi said.
Beginning in her 20s, Perry Rossi wrote and defended public interests while pursuing a career in teaching and media. While in Uruguay, Perry Rossi joined the Broad Front and wrote for the weekly magazine Forward, edited by Mario Benedetti, and The People's Newspaper. Before being exiled to Spain under political pressure, Perry Rossi had published five books and established an initial literary reputation. In terms of the international situation, the "Generation 69" trend is also playing out in Montevideo, and Perry Rossi is strongly involved in it, and she may be more directly involved in this trend than the "Latin American Literature Big Bang Generation". His book, Libro de mis primos, focuses on the struggle stories of the 68 generation, including those members of the guerrillas. Los museos abandonados is dedicated to the "68th Generation," and the novel was Perry Rossi's most important early work. It was at a time when the second wave of feminism swept the world, but Uruguay's feminism suffered a serious blow and erosion, and soon after, Uruguay became more and more bleak and lost. In her 30s, Perry Rossi left Montevideo, giving up her family, the library, and her teaching career. During this period, Perry Rossi was expelled from Spain, where she was living in Barcelona at the time, and it was Julio Cortázar, her reader, who helped her, and Perry Rossi thus stayed briefly in Paris for a short time.
As a member of the Southern Cone Generation and the Big Bang Generation in Latin American Literature, Perry Rossi won the Cervantes Prize and truly entered the public and academic horizons through a long period of twists and turns. Among them, Perry Rossi mainly overcomes two obstacles: first, as an obstacle of exile, among which Antonio di Benedetto, Haroldo Conti, Daniel Moyano, Clara Obligado, and Ida Vitale; second, as an obstacle for women, Also in this column are Elena Garro, María Luisa Bombal, Armonía Somers, Marosa di Giorgio, Rosario Figueroa, and SaraMitre. With Ida Beatale and Perry Rossi winning the Cervantes Prize, their journey to becoming classic writers has only just begun.
"I think I've always been true to my desires, and I've struggled to be who I want to be, despite all sorts of warnings and adversities (one word beckons another). But I don't like to say that they imply to me that what happens to us is as important as the way we bear it, bear it, and overcome it. On a path similar to mine, there are so many victims, it's stories of suicide, addiction, frustration. Perry Rossi said. In this statement, Perry Rossi speaks to one of the most important aspects of her literature, her dedication to the truth, and even her entire poetics, based on it. As a result, Perry Rossi has always been able to absorb a variety of genres and trends.
"I'm a sniper," Perry Rossi said in an interview with The Public, perhaps enough to illustrate his literary career and journalism career. Perry Rossi has been a long-time journalist for Radio Catalunya Public and has also written for media and institutions such as Victory, El Pasional, Le XVI, Vanguard, Barcelona, Le Monde, Effie and other media and agencies.
Joseph Winkler was awarded the International Literary Prize in Valencia, Slovenia
Josef Winkler recently won the 2021 Vilenica International Literary Prize in Slovenia. Previously, Winkler won the Austrian National Prize and the Georg Bichner Prize, hosted by the German Academy of Chinese And Letters. Past winners of the International Prize for Literature in Valencia, Slovenia include Fulvio Tomizza, Zbigniew Herbert, Adolf Muschg, Nádas Péter, Miodrag Pavlović, Krasznahorkai László), Jáchym Topol, Dubravka Ugreši, etc.
Joseph Winkler
Winkler was born into a rural family in the Austrian canton of Carinthia. During his rural elementary school years, he developed a passion and anticipation for language, a period in which his literary icon was the best-selling author Karl May. Later, he studied at the Villach Business School and also worked for companies in Spital and Villach, as well as at the University of Klagenfurt. During this period, Winkler never abandoned his literary pursuits, and he read and drew a lot of nourishment from the works of Peter Weiss and the existentialists, important of which was the Schreibarbeiten magazine published with Alois Brandstetter.
Since 2012, Winkler has served as President of the Austrian Arts Senate, whose members also include Wolf Di Prex, Siegfried Ansinger, Heinz Karl Gruber, Peter Waterhouse and others. The Austrian Arts Senate is primarily responsible for promoting social and cultural links, such as nominating candidates for the Austrian National Prize. Winkler is also a member of the Graz Writers' Association and the Austrian Writers' Association.
The Das wilde Kärnten trilogy is Winkler's most famous work, followed by Menschenkind, Der Ackermann aus Kärnten, and Muttersprache. The trilogy presents almost all the themes of Winkler's literature: Catholicism, rural life, the loveless family, oppression and repression, loneliness, homosexuality. The gilded angels on the altar without hearts and brains on the pages of the book seem to echo the life that Winkler endured and undertook, "No money to buy books!" "Freak, cut off your penis!" There is a eschatological mood floating between the lines, and all kinds of things can be traced back to the works of Anna Sigus, Günter Glass, Jellinek and others. "On 29 September 1976, in the village of Camerin in his hometown of Carinthia ... Jacob Pickeller, a 17-year-old mechanic apprentice, and fellow friend, Bricklayer apprentice Robert Ladinig, carry a three-meter-long rope and climb onto a high sleeper with the help of a wooden ladder in a priest's barn. They circled the rope and tied a knot behind them. The nerves of the rope seemed to twitch. Their hands intertwined in mid-air in a braid, and the circle swirled faster and faster, and they scattered quickly, pausing in front of their bloodshot eyes. Winkler writes at the beginning of The Son of Man.
And to stand up to the holy relics and perversions, and to integrate them into the language of declarative mode, this is the main literary style of Winkler. It is also through his creative writing that personal trauma and social innovation, vicious humiliation and aesthetic perfection are harmonized. Apparently, Winkler was exempted, he was allowed to write, and his father seemed to have no regard for his writing, even with some leniency. As the years passed, Winkler also had a further spiritual realization, and the conflict and tension of relationships seemed to be replaced by disappearance and reassurance. As he writes at the end of Father's Requiem, "Take care, Father... Have a pleasant journey..." In a slightly further paragraph, Winkler wrote, "At this time the divine ceremony will begin, and the gods will be awakened. From time to time... I think of the bells in my hometown, especially the bells of prayer in the evening... We ask ourselves who is dead, who is terminally ill, or who is the oldest, who left too early. As for the language, I am afraid that I will not be able to present it here, and the willing reader can read Winkler's original work.
Winkler belongs to an important node of the Austrian modernist extension line in the contemporary era, this modernist thread runs through more than a hundred years of Austrian history, during which the two most important time zones are the youth style or the Viennese Secession and the Vienna Group, and other modernist masters are scattered in the middle and around the two time zones, they are Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus, Thomas Bernhard, Issei Schnitzler, etc. Ilse Aichinger, Alois Brandstetter, Peter Rosei.
Thomas Melle described an encounter with Winkler in his autobiographical novel Die Welt im Rücken (Back to the World). It reads, "I hate Klagenfurt, as I know it now; it is well known that there was, in particular, a self-celebration extravaganza of critics, agents, and publishers, and the authors stood around like cheap bitches, waiting to sell their flesh." I remember pushing a critic away at the counter, not to meet anyone else, but just to caricature the crowded scene in front of him. Then I walked over to the group of seated people I knew. I was touched that the female editor, Charlotte Belombach, brought Josef Winkler with him, after all, he was one of the literary heroes of my teenage years. I immediately listed to him which of his books were the best for what reasons and for what reasons. He just nodded. Many nodded, at the time. They have the right to nod. Simply nodded without saying a word. Nowadays, when I meet a madman, I mostly don't do anything else, just nod. I don't know that either. ”
Colm Tobin was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature
Colm Tóibín recently won the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tobin is widely regarded as the foremost novelist in the English-language literary world today, and he has so far won only two major International Literary Prizes, the International Dublin Literary Prize and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. The David Cohen Prize for Literature is biennial and is one of the few lifetime achievement awards in the English-speaking literary world. Since 1993, the David Cohen Prize for Literature has been awarded to 16 writers, among whom the most important but not yet known in the Chinese world are Michael Holroyd, Tom Stoppard, Edna O'Brien, Derek Mahon, Muriel Spark, William S. Thompson, and The Edna O'Brien, Derek Mahon, Muriel Spark, William Holmehl. William Trevor.
Colm Tobin
Tobin was born in the small town of Enniscorthy, Wexfordshire, Ireland. As a child, Tobin suffered from severe stuttering, he only learned to read at the age of 9, and without dyslexia repair, Tobin gradually overcame stuttering by immersing himself in reading, during which he even recited Sylvia Plath's famous poem "Daddy". Tobin studied at St Peter's College in Wexford, then worked as a bartender in Tramore for a few years before attending University College Dublin. After graduating from University College Dublin, Tobin went to Barcelona for a few years of exile, then briefly returned to campus and later became active in journalism, working for Dublin, Hibernia and the Sunday Tribune. Soon after, he became editor of McGill, Ireland's best cultural magazine of the time. During this time, Tobin supported contraception, legal abortion, and homosexual rights, perhaps inherited from his grandfather, who had been involved in the 1916 Easter Rebellion. Tobin was a frequent alcoholic and adept at provoking conflict, once angering gang leaders by placing a shotgun in the apartment room where Tobin lived. After an argument with director Vincent Browne, Tobin left McGill, and he hasn't worked in the media since, other than writing for it.
In 1993, Tobin published his first article in the London Review of Books, The Built-in Reader. The article appears to be a book review of a reprint of Samuel Beckett's debut dream of fair to middling women, but it's mixed with too many quotes and doesn't look like a book review. In 1995, he published his first article in The New Yorker, "Dublin's Epiphany." The article is designed to be a terrible situation for Irish women. In 2001, he published his first article in the New York Review of Books, "Lady Gregory's Toothbrush." "Brush" out of Mrs. Gregory to W. B. W. Yeats B. Yeats's Letter: This is an ancient battle that takes place between people who use toothbrushes and those who don't. The fight over toothbrushes refers to the riots and public opinion sparked by the Abbey Theatre's premiere of John Millington Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World." To this day, Tobin is still a contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Shortly before the award, Tobin had just published his new book, The Magician, a biographical novel about Thomas Mann that almost touched on Thomas Mann's life from Lübeck to Los Angeles. Thomas Mann's prestige and importance are unquestionable, and he published almost all the classic works in the important stages of his life, such as "Buddenbrook Family: The Decline of a Family", "Death of Venice", "The Magic Mountain", and "Dr. Faust". Tobin presents the hidden story of Thomas Mann's life and its progressive development. For example, Thomas Mann transformed from a German nationalist to a staunch anti-fascist and democrat. The transformation took place in the early 1920s, thanks to Thomas Mann's wife, Katia Mann.
Thomas Mann is known to be a homosexual, but he was also imprisoned in the 19th century gay, ashamed of himself, eager to change himself. From an early age, Thomas Mann's homosexual tendencies were well known to his family. "Just as Thomas will not do anything to endanger the happiness of his family, Katia will admit his homosexual desires without complaint, watching his gaze with tolerance and humor as he pursues his prey, and she makes it clear that she is willing to appreciate his different appearances at the right time." Tobin writes in the book. In 1911, while traveling through Venice, Thomas Mann met Tazio from what would later be the Death of Venice, who turned Tazio into a woman, but at the same time realized, "No, he has to be a man." This story will have to imply that this desire is not just about sexuality, but is also out of reach. ”
Also gay, Tobin read all of Thomas Mann's works at the age of 20, but at the time he knew almost nothing about Thomas Mann's life. It wasn't until the London Review of Books invited him to write a book review of Thomas Mann's biography that Tobin had the idea of writing a biography of him, and the idea lingered ever since. According to Thomas Mann's will, his diary was published in 1975, and Tobin read and examined it in detail during his biography. It was a few years ago that I actually started writing. In the book, Tobin mainly uses an intimate third-person narrative, which has the effect of being false and real.
Previously, Tobin had also written a biographical novel about Henry James. Henry James is Tobin's favorite novelist. "I like his dramatic presentation of moral topics, but at the same time focusing on sensual and fashionable issues. I like his seriousness about the fictional form and the way he refuses to let readers make judgments. I like that he insists on being subtle and subtle in his writing. I love his deep understanding of the peculiarities, vacillations of motivation and emotion in human relationships. In an interview, Tobin said. Tobin believed that henry james and Thomas Mann had both become novelists out of frustration of desire. In an interview, Tobin said, "You learn to imagine yourself, to see yourself differently, to see yourself from the outside, and at the same time to see the world as a strange existence rather than one you take for granted." ”
In Irish society, there is still a conflict between what is traditional and accepted and what actually happens, or between generations, and in a recent interview, Tobin said, "We can see this in recent works, such as the works of Belinda McKeon and Naoise Dolan." Ireland seems to have been engaged in a tug-of-war between the 19th and 20th centuries, between the idea of home and the idea of an individual's own life. In Irish fiction, that chasm between two worlds still plagues those who swing between home and far away. For example, in the novels of Sally Rooney, Belinda McGuione, and Naois Dolan, there is often a young woman who is clever and witty. She has escaped the web of religion and nationalism and lives confidently in a world full of text messages, taxis, low-cost air travel, upstarts and mobile identities. But she came from a family that spoke to her in a soft and resolute, loving and harsh voice while providing protection.
Among the young Irish writers, Sally Rooney, Belinda McKeeon, Naois Dolan, Rob Doyle and Nicole Flat all graduated from Trinity College Dublin. In many of their novels, there is a tension between a new sense of entitlement and the tug-of-war with home—a conflict between a self bathed in fragile cosmopolitanism and a family that sounds like a nation, a century, and a distant mentality. These writers did not describe Ireland as a Catholic country, because that Catholic country had disappeared. Even in the 1970s, few Irish novelists wrote about Catholic issues. These writers are not examples of New Ireland, not of post-Catholic Ireland, nor of Ireland of great economic boom or great recession. On the contrary, they were self-reliant, self-reliant, free of movement, and had no Irish baggage at all. At the heart of this new literary practice is a notion of the self, the idea that no other art form can handle the inner workings of the self like a novel, and that the conflicts and desires that make up the self may be sufficient to satisfy a novelist. In Ireland, placing the self rather than family or society at the heart of the novel can be an exciting thing. ”
In the New York Times' standing Q&A section, Tobin makes a list of what he considers to be the best living writers: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson, John Banville, Javier Marías, Richard Marías, and John Banville. Richard Rodriguez, Pankaj Mishra, Marjorie Perloff, Helen Vendler, Christopher Ricks and Stephen Burt, Perry Anderson, Jane Anderson, Andy Anderson, Anderson, Andy Anderson, Jane Kramer, Fintan O'Toole, Louise Glück, Paul Muldoon.
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