【時報訊】由聖路易PenUltimate出版公司出版，有美國“桂冠詩人”稱號之名作家裘小龍編譯之“Evoking Tang－中國古典詩選”， 2008年5月29日在加州洛杉磯舉行之2008年圖書展中，榮獲2008年富克林獎決選(Finalist, 2008 Beijamin Franklin Award)。此一獎項由美國獨立圖書出版協會頒發予在2007年出版之傑出優秀出版物。裘小龍之編著再度受到美國出版業之重視。
「中國古典詩選」一書中，裘小龍收集了中國唐代70餘首中國古典詩詞，翻譯成英文並以雙語方式刊行。富蘭克林獎評審表示，“中國古典詩選”是一本集中國古典詩詞之美的選集，就算你不懂中文，也可在翻譯的字裏行間體會中國詩詞之美，整本書出類拔萃。
出版“Evoking Tang”一書之出版公司是聖路易本地的一家出版公司，PenUltimate出版公司執行主任兼創辦人Winnie Sullivan女士表示，“我們很高興能夠出版裘小龍這位名家的翻譯編輯”。作為一間非營利獨立之出版公司，Winnie Sullivan女士邀請聖路易名作家裘小龍一展才華，集公共教育、文化交流、現代和古典感性發揮之大成而誕生了這本詩選。為人文薈萃的聖路易地區再添風采。
訂購“中國古典詩選”，請洽詢Winnie
Sullivan,電話：(314)862-3842或電郵Penultim@swbell.netEVOKING TANG by Qiu Xiaolong NAMED FINALIST IN 2008 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARDS
PenUltimate Press, Inc. is proud to announce that Evoking Tang by Qiu Xiaolong was a finalist in the 2008 Benjamin Franklin AwardTM for the Poetry/Literary Criticism category. The Benjamin Franklin AwardsTM are sponsored by PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, and celebrate excellence in editorial and design for titles published in 2007. Judges for the Awards come from all areas of the industry: major newspaper and trade media reviewers, bookstore and library buyers and reviewers, and noncompeting publishers, artists and writers.
Evoking Tang is a bilingual collection offering English translations of more than 70 short classic Chinese poems from the great poets of the first century Tang dynasty. As judges of the Benjamin Franklin Awards wrote: "Evoking Tang is an anthology of classic Chinese poetry and the classics have never sounded finer. Read the lines, enjoy the...illustrations and, even if you do not read Chinese, you can appreciate the alternating pages of English translations...." "Exceptional design-cover and interior. This book [is] top-notch from front to back."
In Evoking Tang, Qiu breathes new life into the works of the Tang dynasty master poets. The sample poems in the anthology are comparable in importance, for English-speaking readers, to those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Longfellow. Qiu translates them into English remaining faithful to their original meaning and imagery and rendering the beloved poems enjoyable to readers. The book includes 30 illustrations of Chinese paintings to aid interpretation of the poems and to stir the imagination of the readers as they enter the poetic world.
Awards were presented on Thursday, May 29, 2008, on the eve of BookExpo America 2008, during the 2008 Publishing University in Los Angeles, CA, at which time winners were recognized for setting the standards and the pace for the publishing industry.
To request a copy of Evoking Tang, or for more information, contact Winnie Sullivan at (314) 862-3842, e-mail: penultim@swbell.net.
About the Author: Qiu Xiaolong has won numerous awards for his highly acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery series. He returned to his first love-poetry-to find similar success with Evoking Tang. A native of Shanghai, who came to the United States in 1988 on a Ford Foundation Fellowship, Qiu was already a distinguished poet and scholar before arriving at Washington University in St. Louis, where he obtained a doctorate in comparative literature. He has been the recipient of a host of awards for his poetry, including the Missouri Biennial Award and the Prairie Schooner Readers Choice Award. In addition to Evoking Tang, Qiu has written the Treasury of Chinese Love Poems, another volume of poetry translations, and Lines Around China, a collection of his own poems.
Evoking Tang by Qiu Xiaolong
162 pages, 30 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9760675-1-1
PRICE: $16.95
PUB DATE: 2007 |
