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在美国当代文学界,大卫·里维特(David Lesvitt)是一个颇受关注的名字,他不仅获得过《洛杉矶时报》小说奖、福克纳小说奖和美国图书批评奖,还被纽约图书馆授予“文学狮子星座”荣誉称号。四年前就翻译过他的《木婚》,发表在《小说界》2009年第3期,那算是他第一次与中国读者见面。里维特于1961年出生在美国宾夕法尼亚州的匹兹堡市,青年时求学于耶鲁大学,毕业后先后在普林斯顿大学、福罗里达大学任教,讲授英语文学,为“创作性写作协会”会员。除了从事小说创作外,还为《纽约客》、《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》撰写专栏,编辑《亚热带》、《福罗里达大学文学评论》等专业杂志。他很早就显露出文学天赋,处女作《家庭舞蹈》出版于1984年,当时他只有23岁。从那之后,几乎每年都有作品问世,其中有小说集《一个我从来没有去过的地方》、《阿肯色州》、《大理石棉被》和长篇小说《最后的鹤语》、
David Lesvitt is a notable American contemporary literary figure who not only won the Los Angeles Times Novel Award, the Faulkner Novels Prize and the American Book Criticism Prize, but also won the New York Libraries Awarded the honorary title of “Literary Lion Constellation.” Translation of his “wooden marriage” four years ago, published in the “novels” 2009 the third period, it is the first time he met with Chinese readers. Levitte was born in 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where he studied at Yale University. After graduation, he taught at Princeton University and the University of Florida and taught English literature as a member of Creative Writing Association. In addition to writing novels, he also writes columns for The New Yorker, The New York Times and the Washington Post, and edits professional journals such as Subtropics and University of Florida Literary Criticism. He had long since revealed literary talent, debut “Home Dance” was published in 1984, when he was only 23 years old. Since then, there have been works published almost every year, including a collection of novels, “A place I’ve never been,” “Arkansas,” “Marble quilts,” and the novel “The Last Crane”