2019澳大利亚文学周作家推介：许莹玲
来源：澳大利亚大使馆 | 2019年03月12日12:09
Julie Koh
Julie Koh (许莹玲) was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing. She is the author of two short-story collections: Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities. The latter was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Australian Science Fiction Foundation’s Norma K Hemming Award (Long Work). Julie was named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. She was a judge for the 2018 Stella Prize. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Best Australian Stories in 2014 to 2017. Her fiction has been published in the United States, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Julie is the editor of BooksActually’s Gold Standard, the librettist for satirical opera Chop Chef, and a founding member of experimental literary collective Kanganoulipo.
（Photo Credit to Hugh Stewart）
Quote
I see two things at once. My regular eyes see a lizard about the length of my forearm, its chest expanding and contracting as it breathes. But my other eye sees a little grey boy. His belly is swollen and he looks at me with saucer eyes.
— Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh
Book Reviews
‘The Australian writer’s new work, Portable Curiosities, is a collection of whip-smart satirical tales that are as painfully funny as they are uncomfortably timely. … It’s perfect for our busy, scary times: easily digestible and, for all its madcap imagination, utterly true.’
— Guardian Australia on Portable Curiosities
‘Koh is a gifted satirist … Humour, weirdness, and social critique characterise almost all of the stories in this clever and highly original collection.’
– The Sydney Morning Herald on Portable Curiosities
许莹玲（Julie Koh）在悉尼出生，父母是马来西亚华裔。她毕业于悉尼大学政治与法律专业，毕业几年后放弃了公司法律师的职业，专职写作。她出版有两本短篇小说集：《资本失格》（Capital Misfits）与《轻小奇妙事》（Portable Curiosities）。其中《轻小奇妙事》入围多个奖项短名单，包括“新澳大利亚小说——阅读奖”、“昆士兰文学奖——斯蒂尔•拉德奖”、“新南威尔士总理文学奖的奖——悉尼科技大学格兰达•亚当斯奖”，以及澳大利亚科幻小说基金会颁发的“诺玛•K•恒明奖”。2017年，许莹玲入选《悉尼先驱晨报》澳大利亚优秀青年小说家，2018年受邀担任斯特拉奖评委。短篇作品在多个刊物发表，并在2014年至2017年连续三年入选《最佳澳大利亚故事》合集。她的作品也在美国、爱尔兰、日本、马来西亚与新加坡等国出版。莹玲同时也是新加坡独立书店BooksActually年度文学选集《BooksActually的黄金标准》的编辑、讽刺歌剧《主厨争夺战》（Chop Chef）的剧本作者，以及实验文学团体袋鼠乌力波（Kanganoulipo）的创始人之一。
照片来自：HughStewart
引言
我同时看见两个物体。正常的双眼看见一只蜥蜴，有我前臂那么长，胸口随着呼吸起伏。而另一只眼却看到一个面如纸色的小男孩。他鼓胀着肚子，一双空洞幽深的眼睛盯住我。
——《轻小奇妙事》许莹玲，梅冬陈译
书评
这位澳大利亚作家的新作《轻小奇妙事》是一本小说集，这些故事机智讽刺，好玩又扎心，因为它们如此切入时代……它适合我们这个忙碌、恐怖的时代：太好读，而其中疯狂的想象又无比真实。
——《澳大利亚卫报》评《轻小奇妙事》
许莹玲是个极具天赋的讽刺作家……这本聪颖且极为新奇的小说集里的所有故事都体现出了她的幽默、古怪和社会批判意识。
—《悉尼先驱晨报》评《轻小奇妙事》
