Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize at a recent event in the UK celebrating five decades of the prestigious literary award. The tale of love and conflict during World War II was praised as the greatest winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction after winning an online vote.
The masterpiece of the Sri Lanka-born author had won the Man Booker Prize in 1992, and was made into a 1996 movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas that won nine Academy Awards. The other four finalists for the Golden Booker included V.S. Naipaul’s In a Free State, Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo.
The English translation of writer Wu Ming-yi’s novel The Stolen Bicycle was nominated for the biannual Man Booker International Prize this year, making him the first Taiwanese to be nominated. The prize eventually went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
文壇聲譽卓著的「曼布克獎」近日在英國慶祝五十週年，頒發了一項「金曼布克獎」，由加拿大作家麥可翁達傑的名著《英倫情人》獲獎。該作品描述二次世界大戰期間關於愛情與衝突的故事，在贏得線上投票後，被譽為歷年來得獎小說中的最佳作品。
翁達傑出生於斯里蘭卡，他的大作一九九二年曾榮獲「曼布克獎」，之後在一九九六年被改編成電影，由雷夫范恩斯、克莉斯汀史考特湯瑪斯主演，更勇奪奧斯卡九項大獎。本次「金曼布克獎」其它四部決選作品還包括︰V.S.奈波爾的《在自由的國度》、潘妮洛普賴芙利的《月虎》、希拉蕊曼特爾的《狼廳》、喬治桑德斯的《林肯在中陰》。
作家吳明益今年以小說《單車失竊記》英文譯本，入圍兩年一度的「曼布克國際獎」，成為首位入圍該獎項的台灣人，最終則由波蘭作家奧爾嘉朵卡萩的《飛翔》獲獎。
（台北時報張聖恩）
South Korea’s famous kimchi is falling victim to climate change, with scientists, farmers and manufacturers saying the quality and quantity of the napa cabbage that is pickled to make the ubiquitous dish is suffering due to rising temperatures. Napa cabbage thrives in cooler climates, and is usually planted in mountainous regions where temperatures during the key growing summer season once rarely rose above 25 degrees Celsius. Studies show that warmer weather brought about by climate change is now threatening these crops, so much so that South Korea might not be able to grow napa cabbage one day due to the intensifying heat. “We
A: What’s even more horrible is that the five suspects who purposely supplied ketamine to actor Matthew Perry were all his “friends.” B: Who exactly are the five suspects? A: They include Matthew’s two doctors, a broker, a drug dealer, and even his live-in assistant. B: Those scumbags should go to jail. A: Yeah, one of the doctors may be sentenced to up to 120 years in prison. A: 更可怕的是，提供男星馬修派瑞「K他命」的5人全是他的「朋友」。 B: 嫌犯是誰啊？ A: 其中包括他的2位醫生、1位仲介、1位毒販、甚至他的同居助理！ B: 那些人渣真該去坐牢。 A: 對啊，其中1位醫生可能面臨120年徒刑。 （By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
It’s widely recognized that there are far more right-handed people than left-handed people in the world. Being right-handed simply means preferring to use one’s right hand for tasks that involve only one hand, such as writing and eating. But have you ever wondered about the possible reasons behind the global dominance of the right hand over the left? As with many complex biological questions, multiple factors appear to be at play. First, one reason seems to be genetics. __1__ Therefore, the global dominance of right-handedness is something that has been passed down through many generations of humans. Next,
Continued from yesterday（延續自昨日） https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang Finally, cultural influence also plays a role in which hand people prefer. Historically, items that require physical manipulation have been designed for right-handed use. For example, tools like scissors and musical instruments are often constructed with right-handers in mind, making it difficult for left-handers to use them. __4__ While these factors offer some explanation, they remain speculative. The precise reasons for the global prevalence of right-handed people continue to be debated. Nevertheless, left-handedness will remain a phenomenon of great curiosity among scientists and researchers for many years to come. 最後，文化影響也在人們偏好哪一隻手上扮演一角。歷史上，需要用到肢體操作的物品都被設計來供右手使用。舉例來說，像是剪刀、樂器等工具常常就是考慮到右撇子而打造的，造成左撇子難以使用這些工具。因此，許多天生就是左撇子的人可能就必須透過學習使用右手來適應。 雖然這些因素都提供了一些解釋，但它們仍是推測而已。全球右撇子如此普及，確切的原因仍持續被爭論著。不過，在未來的許多年裡，左撇子依然會是科學家和研究人員相當好奇的一個現象。 What Did You Learn? (A) Specifically, different areas of
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