VOA慢速英语:Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Literature Prize
25 October, 2013
Hello again, and welcome. This is As It Is, a daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. I'm June Simms.
In 2016, the world will celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Today, Jim Tedder tells us about one project that hopes to make Shakespeare's poems more interesting for a 21st century audience.
But first, we hear about the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Literature Prize
Canadian writer Alice Munro has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In announcing its decision, the Swedish Academy called the 82-year-old writer a &master of the contemporary short story.&
Munro is the 13th woman to win the literature prize. She said she hoped the award &would make people see the short story not just something you played around with until you get a novel written.&
Alice Munro began writing in her youth. Her stories began appearing in magazines in the early 1950s. She published her first collections of short stories in 1968, called Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories. Many of her collections are about small town farming communities like her hometown of southwestern Ontario, Canada.
Her most recent collection, Dear Life, was published in 2012. It includes four short stories that Munro describes as &autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact.& In her words, &they are the closest things I have to say about my own life.& Earlier this year, the writer announced that she was &probably not going to write anymore.&
The Canadian writer will receive about $1.2 million for her Nobel Prize award. The award ceremony will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10. The Swedish Academy says Alice Munro has declined an invitation to attend the award ceremony because of poor health. No word on who will represent her at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
You are listening to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I'm June Simms in Washington.
Filming Shakespeare's Poems for 21st Century Audience
Nothing like the Nobel Prize Award existed during the time of William Shakespeare. The first Nobel Prizes were not awarded until 1901, nearly 300 years after the death of the so-called &Bard of Avon.&
Next year marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. His plays are still widely performed all over the world. But for many people, Shakespeare is something they study in school, not something they read or watch for pleasure.
One American theater company is trying to change that. Jim Tedder reports.
Ross Williams studied acting and directing in school. He launched a theater company called the New York Shakespeare Exchange. Ross Williams loves Shakespeare. But, he knows that many people might not share that love. He says 400-year-old English is tough to understand. And, he says, many people think of Shakespeare as dusty and dull.
&So I started thinking about how I could deliver Shakespeare to people in small chunks, things that would be manageable and get people to experience Shakespeare in their day-to-day lives without having to make the commitment to go see a full show. And so we started with the sonnets because they're contained.&
Sonnets are 14-line poems. Ross Williams and his partners launched the Sonnet Project as part of their theater company. The group hopes to film and release each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets before the great English writer's birthday next April. Each piece is being filmed in a different location in New York City.
&Sound rolling ... wide, take two ... and action!&
On this day, a crew is shooting sonnet number three in a 150-year-old bar in Brooklyn. In this sonnet, an older man urges a good-looking young man to find someone to have his child.
The sonnet ends with the words &Die single, and thine image dies with thee.&
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3 US economists share 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announce the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm Oct 14, 2013. Pictured in the projection are laureates Eugene Fama (L-R), Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller. The three American scientists won the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices in the long term and helped the emergence of index funds in stock markets, the award-giving body said.[Photo/Agencies]
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17E80C5FBF87CCD16C1F43BB67F706B7【资料】2013 Nobel Prize in Physics（比利时英国两科学家分享2013年诺贝尔物理学奖 ）
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日，欧洲核子研究中心科学家宣布，他们发现了希格斯玻色子存在的迹象。但经考虑实验其它误差后，宣布实验结果无效。 日科学家宣布发现了一个新粒子，与希格斯玻色子特征有吻合之处。
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