2019澳大利亞文學周作家推介:格雷姆?辛浦生
Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion is the Australian author of The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect and The Best of Adam Sharp (film rights optioned by Toni Collette/Vocab Films). The Rosie Project has sold more than three and a half million copies in more than forty countries, won or been shortlisted for half a dozen prizes, and was the only novel on Bill Gates’ list of “six books I’d recommend”. Last year Graeme co-authored with his wife, Anne Buist, the novel Two Steps Forward, with film rights optioned by Ellen DeGeneres/Fox Searchlight. Simsion got his big break in books in 2012, when The Rosie Project won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Before that, he was an IT and business consultant, and also has an extensive background in writing and producing short films and plays, mostly for Australian television and film festivals. Graeme’s newest novel, The Rosie Result, recently debuted at No. 1 in fiction novels in Australia.
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Quote
"Wow," she said, very quietly, looking back at the vastness of it all. Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway.
— The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
Book Reviews
Sharp dialogue, terrific pacing, physical hijinks, slapstick, a couple to root for, and more twists than a pack of Twizzlers — it's no surprise that The Rosie Project is bound for the big screen. But read it first.
— NPR on The Rosie Project
This good-hearted, pacy, thoroughly enjoyable novel takes a significant step towards showing that all human variants are a potential source of life affirming comedy.
— Guardian on The Rosie Project
格雷姆?辛浦生,澳大利亞作家,著有《羅茜計劃》、《羅茜效應》和《亞當?夏普的黃金時代》(The Best of Adam Sharp)(將由托妮?科萊特/弗卡伯電影公司改編電影)等作品。《羅茜計劃》已經(jīng)在四十多個國家地區(qū)售出超過三百五十萬冊,榮獲或入圍六個獎項,是比爾?蓋茨“我推薦的六本書”中唯一的小說。去年,辛浦生與妻子安妮?布斯特共同完成作品《向前兩步》(Two Steps Forward),影視版權由艾倫?德詹尼絲/福克斯探照燈影業(yè)買下。2012年,《羅茜計劃》獲得“維多利亞州總理文學獎—最佳未出版手稿獎”,成為他寫作事業(yè)的重大轉折。在此之前,他是一位IT、商務咨詢師,同時有著廣泛的寫作經(jīng)驗,常為澳大利亞電視、電影節(jié)進行電影短片劇本創(chuàng)作和戲劇創(chuàng)作。格雷姆的新作《關于羅茜最后的故事》已于近期出版,并榮登澳大利亞小說類暢銷榜第一名。
引語
“哇哦!”她感嘆道,靜靜地望向身后無垠的時空。接著,就在蒼茫宇宙中另一個稍縱即逝的瞬間,她牽起了我的手,向地鐵走去。
——《羅茜計劃》格雷姆?辛浦生,鄭玲譯
書評
對話尖銳,節(jié)奏完美,快感十足;一出鬧劇、一對讓人叫好的情侶,以及比麻花還曲折的各種反轉——《羅茜計劃》必然走上大熒幕。但記得先讀一讀。
——美國國家公共電臺評《羅茜計劃》
這本善良、活潑、充滿樂趣的小說有里程碑意義。它向我們證明,再異類的人生都潛藏著振奮人心的喜劇能量。
——《衛(wèi)報》評《羅茜計劃》