評論
打印
Well, it's my pleasure now to introduce our first speaker,
好的，現在我很榮幸介紹今天的第一位演講者
who will be I think known to some people
我想那些在Rewley House聽過課的
who have attended events at Rewley House.
可能已經認識他
It's Peter Kemp.
他就是彼得·坎普
He's currently the chief fiction Reviewer of the Sunday Times
現任，星期日泰晤士報，首席小說評論員
and he is a visiting fellow of Kellog College Oxford.
同時是牛津凱洛格學院的客座研究員
Peter is one of those people who did something
彼得所做的事情
that a lot of academics dream of doing.
是眾多學者夢寐以求的
that he started as university lecturer
他從做大學講師開始
and ending up as broadcaster and journalist.
最終成為一名播音員和新聞工作者
He, as an academic, wrote a number of critical books
作為學者，他著有多本關于穆里爾·斯巴克
on Muriel Spark, on H.G. Wells, on Edith Wharton.
赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯和伊迪絲·華頓的重要作品
And since then he has edited
并從那時起為
the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations.
牛津詞典編輯典故
He is a regular broadcaster on Radio 3, Radio 4,
他定期在廣播3臺和廣播4臺主持
programs like Night Waves and Front Row Saturday Review,
夜波和星期六一線評論等節目
and the write stuff which he has to write paradise of authors.
以及寫一些高度贊揚作者們的文章
But he has a long-standing in fact lifelong interest in crime fiction,
但事實上犯罪小說是他長期的甚至是終身愛好
and so I thought he would be a good person
所以讓他做今天開始的概述部分
to give the overview of the beginning of the day.
再合適不過了
We are going to welcome him back later
之后我們還會再次請到他
when he speaks to Ruth Randell and P.D. James.
當講到魯斯·蘭德爾和P.D.詹姆斯的時候
His title is Cluedo and Cadavers——History of Crime Fiction.
他的演講主題是，犯罪小說中尋兇和死尸的歷史
So please welcome Peter Kemp.
讓我們歡迎彼得·坎普
