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Google's latest doodle celebrates the 165th birthday of Bram Stoker, the Irish novelist and short story writer best known as the creator of Dracula, despite writing 19 books.
谷歌最新涂鴉慶祝布拉姆•斯托克的165歲生日，這位愛爾蘭以《嗜血幽靈》的創(chuàng)作而知名的短篇小說作家，盡管他寫了19本書。
Born in Dublin in 1847, Stoker studied at Trinity College while working as a civil servant in Dublin Castle and moonlighting as a newspaper drama critic.
1847年出生在都柏林，斯托克在三一學院學習時，正在都柏林城堡擔任公務員并兼職當報紙戲劇的評論家。
He moved to London in 1878 with his new wife, Florence Balcombe, and became an administrator of the Irving Company at the Lyceum theatre.
在1878年他與新妻子Florence Balcombe搬到倫敦，成為了歐文公司學會劇院的一個管理員。
Stoker's first full-length book, written earlier in Dublin, was a piece on non-fiction entitled The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, and was followed by novels, lectures, short stories, articles, serials and a two-volume memoir of Irving.
斯托克的第一本完整的書，是早些時候在都柏林寫的，一本名叫 《The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions》的非小說，緊隨其后的是小說、演講稿、短篇故事、文章、連續(xù)劇和兩卷歐文回憶錄。
Dracula, his fifth novel, was published in 1897 after Stoker spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires.
《嗜血幽靈》，他的第五部小說，于1897年出版，在斯托克花了好幾年時間研究歐洲關于吸血鬼的民間傳說和神話故事之后。
He died in London in 1912 after suffering a number of strokes. One hundred years after Stoker's death, Dracula continues to fascinate and forms the basis for a film and literary industry based around vampires.
他在遭受多次中風后1912年死于倫敦。在斯托克去世一百年之后，《嗜血幽靈》一直是吸引和形成電影和文學產(chǎn)業(yè)基于吸血鬼題材的基礎。
A new edition, with an introduction by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, was published this year to mark the centenary of Stoker's death.
一個新的版本，由愛爾蘭作家Colm Tóibín寫的介紹，將于今年出版紀念斯托克去世一百周年。
