亨利·勞森
亨利·勞森(Henry Lawson、1867年6月17日—1922年9月2日),澳大利亞小說家和詩人,澳洲本土文化的創始人之一,生於勞動貧民家庭。父親是挪威人,1866年移居澳洲,最早是金礦工人,後來經營農耕。勞森只念過三年書,14歲就開始工作,當過油漆工、鋸木工、電報線路工。生活非常艱難。他很早就在報紙上發表詩歌、散文與小說,內容大多描寫了澳洲叢林生活、淘金者、農場經營、剪羊毛工人、城市貧民的革命風暴等,體現了澳洲本土文化特色和獨有的風格,呈現出一幅澳大利亞勞動人民的生活圖景。亨利·勞森主要以短篇小說蜚聲文壇,出版過詩集《在海闊天空的日子裡》、短篇小說集《當罐裡的水沸騰的時候》。
亨利·勞森 | |
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出生 | 1867年6月17日 Grenfell |
逝世 | 1922年9月2日 (55歲) 雪梨 |
職業 | 作家、詩人 |
詩集
- While the Billy Boils (1896)
- On the Track (1900)
- Over The Sliprails (1900)
- The Country I Come From (1901)
- In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
- Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901)
- Verses: Popular and Humorous
- The Romance of the Swag (1907)
- Send Round the Hat (1907)
- The Rising Of The Court, and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse (1910)
- Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)
- Children of the Bush
最著名的詩與短篇小說
- "Andy's Gone with Cattle" (poem)
- "Freedom on the Wallaby" (poem, 1891)
- "Saint Peter" (poem, 1893)
- "Scots of the Riverina" (poem, 1917)
- "The Teams" (poem, 1896)
- "Up The Country" (poem, 1892)
- "The Drover's Wife" (short story, 1892)
- "The Bush Undertaker" (short story, 1892)
- "The Loaded Dog" (short story, 1901)
- "The Iron-Bark Chip" (short story,1900)
- "Steelman's Pupil" (short story)
- "The Geological Spieler" (short story, 1896)
- "A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" (short story, 1902)
- "The Union Buries Its Dead" (short story, 1893)
- "A Neglected History" (essay)
- "Australian Loyalty" (essay, 1887)
- "United Division" (essay, 1888)