莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

尊敬的国王和皇后陛下，尊敬的诺贝尔奖得主们，女士们先生们，

Mo Yan is a poet who tears down stereotypical propaganda post ers, elevating the individual from an anonymous human mass. Using ridicule and sarcasm Mo Yan attacks history and its falsifications as well as deprivation and political hypocrisy. Playfully and with ill-disguised delight, he reveal s the murkiest aspects of human existence, almost inadvertently finding images of strong symbolic weight.

莫言是个诗人，他扯下程式化的宣传画，使个人从茫茫无名大众中突出出来。他用嘲笑和讽刺的笔触，攻击历史和谬误以及贫乏和政治虚伪。他有技巧的揭露了人类最阴暗的一面，在不经意间给象征赋予了形象。

North-eastern Gaomi county embodies China’s folk tales and history. Few real journeys can surpass these to a realm where the clamour of donkeys and p igs drowns out the voices of the people’s commissars and where both love and evil assume supernatural proportions.

高密东北乡体现了中国的民间故事和历史。在这些民间故事中，驴与猪的吵闹淹没了人的声音，爱与邪恶被赋予了超自然的能量。

Mo Yan’s imagin ation soars across the entire human existence. He is a wonderful portrayer of nature; he knows virtually all there is to know about hunger, and the brutality of China’s 20th century has probably never been described so nakedly, with heroes, lovers, torturers, bandits – and especially, strong, indomitable mothers. He shows us a world without truth, common sense or compassion, a world where people are reckless, helpless and absurd.

莫言有着无与伦比的想象力。他很好的描绘了自然；他基本知晓所有与饥饿相关的事情；中国20世纪的疾苦从来都没有被如此直白的描写：英雄、情侣、虐待者、匪徒--特别是坚强的、不屈不挠的母亲们。他向我们展示了一个没有真理、常识或者同情的世界，这个世界中的人鲁莽、无助且可笑。

Proof of this misery is the cannibalism that recurs in China’s history. In Mo Yan, it stands for unrestrained consumption, excess, rubbish, carnal pleasures and the indescribable desires that only he can attempt to elucidate beyond all tabooed limitations.

中国历史上重复出现的同类相残的行为证明了这些苦难。对莫言来说，这代表着消费、无节制、废物、肉体上的享受以及无法描述的欲望，只有他才能超越禁忌试图描述。

Mo Yan’s stories hav e mythical and allegorical pretensions and turn all values on their heads. We never meet that ideal citizen who was a standard feature in Mao’s China. Mo Yan’s character s bubble with vitality and take even the most amoral steps and measures to fulfil their lives and burst the cages they have been confined in by fate and politics.