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Date: October 11, 2012
发布日：2012年10月11日
Topic:
China Dissident Criticizes Literature Nobel (Agence France-Presse)
标题：中国持不同政见者魏京生批评诺贝尔文学奖讨好中共（法新社）
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China
dissident criticizes literature Nobel
AFP
October
11, 2012
PROMINENT
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng criticised the awarding of the Nobel literature
prize to officially tolerated author Mo Yan, saying the move was meant to
please Beijing.
Mr
Wei, often considered the father of China's modern democracy movement, praised
Mo Yan's skill as a writer but questioned his actions including copying by hand
part of a speech by late leader Mao Zedong for a commemorative book.
Saying
that China also had other talented writers, Mr Wei charged that the Nobel
committee chose Mo Yan because his selection would be "more tolerated by
the communist regime."
"Thus
this award is not really based on true skill in literature but a reflection of
the will of big business," Mr Wei, who lives in exile in Washington, said.
"Just
look at the elated hype on the Nobel prize by the Chinese government before and
after the announcement. We could tell that this prize was awarded for the
purpose of pleasing the communist regime and is thus not noteworthy," he
said.
In
announcing the first Nobel literature prize to a Chinese national, the Swedish
Academy said that it was honouring Mo Yan for using "fantasy and reality,
historical and social perspectives" to create worlds reminiscent of
William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The
award won wide praise in China's state-controlled media, which two years
earlier imposed a blackout after the Nobel committee in Norway awarded the
prestigious peace prize to dissident writer Liu Xiaobo.
Unlike
Mo Yan, Liu has run afoul of the Chinese system. Authorities arrested Liu in
2008 and sentenced him to 11 years in jail on Christmas Day 2009 after he
authored a pro-democracy manifesto known as Charter 08.
Mr
Wei, who has been tipped in the past for the Nobel Peace Prize and has
criticised Liu as too accommodating, is a former electrician who boldly put up
a poster urging democracy and signed his name to it after Mao's death in 1976.
Mr
Wei spent 18 years in prison, partially on death row, until he was allowed to
go into exile in 1997 after intervention by then US president Bill Clinton.
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A736-W462
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A736-W462
Release
Date: October 11, 2012
发布日：2012年10月11日
Topic:
China Dissident Criticizes Literature Nobel (Agence France-Presse)
标题：中国持不同政见者魏京生批评诺贝尔文学奖讨好中共（法新社）
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中国持不同政见者魏京生批评诺贝尔文学奖讨好中共
-- 法新社，2012年10月11日星期四
杰出的中国持不同政见者魏京生批评诺贝尔文学奖授予被官方所容忍的作家莫言，并称此举是为了讨好北京。
通常被认为是中国现代民主运动之父的魏先生，称赞莫言作为一个作家的文学水平，但质疑他的行为，其中包括为一本纪念册手抄已故领导人毛泽东的讲话。
魏先生指出，中国也有其他有才华的作家。他指出，诺贝尔委员会选择了莫言，是因为这个选择“更能为中共政权所容忍。”
现流亡在华盛顿的魏先生说：“因此，这个奖不是真的文学水平的衡量，而是大企业意志的表现。”
他说：“从中共在这次宣布得奖之前和之后的兴高采烈的炒作来看，这次得奖不过是讨好中共而已，不值得重视。”
在公布第一个授予中国公民的诺贝尔文学奖时，瑞典学院说，这是因为莫言使用“幻想与现实，历史和社会的角度”来创造的、让人想起威廉·福克纳和马尔克斯的世界。
这次的奖获得了中国国家控制的媒体的广泛赞誉。这些媒体在两年前挪威诺贝尔委员会将著名的诺贝尔和平奖授予持不同政见作家刘晓波时完全无声。
与莫言不同，刘与中国的制度相抵触。在他撰写了被称为“08宪章”的民主宣言后，当局于2008年拘捕了刘，并于2009年圣诞节判处他11年徒刑。
曾被看好获得诺贝尔和平奖并批评刘太迁就政府的魏先生过去是个电工。他在1976年毛泽东逝世后大胆地贴出了一个呼吁民主的大字报，并签上了自己的名字。
魏先生在监狱里度过了18年，其中一部分是在死囚牢房，直到1997年由于当时的美国总统比尔·克林顿的干预才被允许流亡。
（魏京生基金会译文，含魏京生先生中文原话。）
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