作家名片 | 黄蓓佳：写作，氤氲着快乐，也孕育出奇迹

近年来，中华文化“走出去”的影响力不断扩大，在全球文化多元化发展日益兴盛的背景下，中国文化译研网(CCTSS)联合中国作家协会《小说选刊》杂志社，启动“新世纪中国当代作家、作品海外传播数据库”项目，将100位中国当代优秀作家的简介、代表作品以及展示作家风采的短视频翻译为10种语言，集结成1000张中国作家名片向全球推介。千张“作家名片”将鲜明地向世界宣告：我是中国作家，我在进行中国创作。

此种形式和规模是中国故事走向世界的一大创新，会让世界更加全面、客观、公正地了解中国优秀作家作品，同时也是打通中国文化走向世界的“最后一公里”。

黄蓓佳，女，1955年6月出生于江苏省如皋县。父母均为中学老师，因为家庭环境之便，还是比同龄的小城少年多读了许多文学作品。1982年毕业于北京大学中文系。中国作协第六、七届全委会委员，专业作家。1973年开始发表作品，1984年加入中国作家协会。代表作有长篇小说《家人们》《所有的》《童眸》等，作品曾获全国优秀儿童文学奖，国家优秀儿童文学图书奖，冰心儿童文学奖。作品改编的电影和电视剧、戏剧获得国际电视节“金匣子”奖、中国电影华表奖、中国电视剧飞天奖等等。有多部作品被翻译成法、德、俄、日、韩。

黄蓓佳早期作品多写年轻知识分子生活，浪漫唯美，被当年的年轻知识读者喜爱。在80年代后期，她的作品逐渐沉入现实，依旧以知识分子为描述对象，作品风格却转为沉郁、哀伤、忧愤。她“希望找到一种更好的表现形式，用以述说她对生活的观察、感受和认识。”这一阶段的黄蓓佳至少在三个方面有了新的突破：一是表现了开拓多种题材的愿望；二是向积极的人生方面发展，三是凸显出吸收新的生活印象的热情和能力。创作路径的转变昭示着作家创作生命的不断延展。黄蓓佳与时俱进地适时改变自己的创作路径，很快引起了评论界的注意。

长篇小说代表作《家人们》，从一个苏中小县城的普通家庭入手，展现了令人触目的时代悲剧和心灵创伤，写尽了母与子、兄与弟、亲人之间的爱和不爱，舍弃和救赎，背叛和逃离。作品以绵密如织的笔触，真实描摹了时代和社会、婚姻和年华的迷乱。出版于2017年的短篇小说集《珞珈路》，收入了作者近几年的短篇新作，小说集中的很多故事都有着“30年”的生长时间，时间又开辟了空间，节制的笔墨和对叙述的有力控制艺术化地制造了一种久违的、来自阅读的愉悦感。2016年出版的儿童长篇小说《童眸》，入选当年“中国好书”，小说讲述了江南小镇的一群孩子的成长故事。作者借助主人公童真的眼睛，描写了二十世纪七十年代物质匮乏、贫病之下的社会人生百态，孩子们历经斑驳生活的洗礼，体验着人性的华美和幽暗，也锻炼着自己的眼力和人格。

Huang Beijia

Huang Beijia was born in Rugao, Jiangsu Province in June 1955. Her parents were both middle school teachers. Because of her family’s advantageous conditions, she read many more works of literature than her peers in that small city. Graduated from Peking University in 1982 with a degree in Chinese. A member of the sixth and seventh general committee of the Chinese Writers Association, she is a professional writer. Her first work was published in 1973, and she joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1984. Among her representative works are the novels Family (Jia Ren Men), All of It (Suo You De), and Pupil (Tong Mou). Her writing has received China’s national awards for outstanding children’s literature and outstanding children’s picture book, as well as the Bing Xin Children’s Literature Award. Her works have been adapted into films, television shows, and plays, which have received the“Golden Box” award for international television, the Huabiao Award for outstanding Chinese cinema, and the Flying Asparas Award (also known as the Feitian Award) for outstanding Chinese television. Many of her works have been translated into French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

Huang Beijia’s early works largely depict the lives of young intellectuals. Romantic and aesthetic in nature, they were well-received among young intellectual readers. Her writing gradually moved toward realism during the late 1980s, although they still focused on the depiction of intellectual characters. Her style veered toward melancholy, grief, and anxious indignation. She “hoped to find a superior form of that would allow her to recount her observations and feelings for life, as well as her understanding of it.” During this stage of her writing career, Huang Jiabei made breakthroughs in at least three regards. First, she expressed her aspiration to pioneer many different topics and themes. Second, she developed her life in a life direction. Third, she displayed her passion and ability for absorbing new impressions of life in a distinct manner. The shift in her means of creativity was a clear statement of the nonstop continuation of the author’s creative life. As Huang Beijia transformed her own creative means in a contemporary manner, she quickly caught critics’ eyes.

Huang Beijia’s most representative novel, Family, follows an ordinary family in a small city in central Jiangsu province. A striking period tragedy blotted with psychological wounds, it powerfully depicts the love and hate, abandonment and redemption, and betrayal and escape between mother and son, between brother and brother, and between relatives. Written with a meticulous style, the novel provides a realistic portrayal of the era, society, marriage, and the confusion of time.

The short story collection Jewelry Road (Luo Jia Lu), published in 2017, gathers several of the author’s recent short pieces. Many of the stories in this collection take place within a span of three decades. This deliberate window of time opens up a corresponding space, and the author’s restrained writing and strong control of her prose artfully creates a rare sense of pleasure derived from the pure action of reading.

Huang Beijia’s children’s novel Pupil, published in 2016, was listed among that year’s “Good Books of China.” The book focuses on a group of children in a small town in southern China and follows them as they grow. As we see through the protagonist’s naive eyes, we observe the many states of Chinese society and life during the 1970s, when material goods were scarce and poverty and illness were widespread. These children come of age amid adverse circumstances, experience life’s beauty and gloom, and also develop their own judgment and character.

英文审校 | 咸慧

编辑 | 朱贺芳

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