燕娜·泰勒

燕娜·泰勒（Janne Teller，1964年4月8日—）是一位具有德国背景的丹麦人，她的母亲来自奥地利，祖父来自北德。曾在世界各地居住和工作，其中包括在莫桑比克和坦桑尼亚。目前在纽约定居。

法学院毕业后，她在欧盟和联合国担任顾问，去过许多发生战事的国家。30岁辞职后，开始专职写作。1999年以首部小说处女作、北欧当代传奇《奥丁之岛》晋身作家行列，《恶童》于2000年出版，是她第二部小说作品，获得广泛回响与讨论，此外也曾在丹麦和国际报章与杂志上发表一系列的的短篇小说和散文。目前她的文学作品已被译成十余种语文，包括英、美、荷、西、韩国、意大利、法、日本、巴西、匈牙利、巴斯克、克罗地亚、斯洛文尼亚等。

燕娜·泰勒的文学作品主要是小说和散文，也包含短篇小说，内容始终着眼于生命和人类文明，并经常引发争议和激烈的辩论。燕娜·泰勒获得许多文学奖项，她的作品被翻译超过13种语言（2011年8月） 。

小说

《奥丁之岛》

《恶童》

连结

Interview at the International Book Festival in Budapest, 2012

Review of Odin's Island in the Telegraph

Janne Teller (born 8 April 1964 in Copenhagen) is a Danish writer of Austrian–German descent, who lives in New York and Berlin.

Before she became a full-time writer she used to work as a conflict advisor for EU and UNO, mostly in Africa.

Literature

Janne Teller's literature, consisting of mainly novels and essays, but also short stories – as well as various works for young adults – always focuses on larger existential perspectives of life and human civilization and often sparks controversial and heated debates.

She has received many literary awards, and her work is translated over 25 languages.

Janne Teller's novels cover a wide variety of contemporary and philosophical issues.

They include the highly praised modern Nordic saga Odin's Island (1999), dealing with religious and political fanaticism; Europa (2004), about European identity and the binds of history in love and war; and Come (2008), about ethics in art and modern life.

Her essays cover existential and ethical perspectives of modern life, and include 'Between the Lines' (Lettre International, 2012), "Europe, who do you want to be?" (Die Welt, 2012) and 'Little Brother is watching you' (Cicero, 2010).

She's furthermore thought to have revolutionized the young adult novel with her existential Nothing (Danish Intet), first published in Denmark in 2000, earned critical acclaim and caused widespread controversy in Scandinavia. It was initially banned, but has since risen as an international bestseller and is today considered a neo-classic by numerous critics worldwide. The novel's main character, the boy Pierre Anthon, proclaims to his classmates that life is meaningless, sitting in a plum tree. They feel an urge to show Pierre Anthon some proof that there is meaning in life, which ultimately leads to violence amongst the children. A German as well as an English translation of Intet were published in 2010. The novel received several awards, among them a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for the English edition in 2011 and the Danish Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) in 2001 for the Danish edition.

Her fictional essay War (2004), published in the shape of a passport on life as a refugee, has also generated widespread debate, particularly in Europe. Janne Teller published her first short story in the Danish Daily, Berlingske Tidende, at the age of 14.

Petition against mass surveillance

In December 2013, Teller helped organise a petition of 560 world-renowned contemporary authors, protesting against mass surveillance in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations. Several Nobel laureates were signatories to the open appeal to governments, corporations and the United Nations

Background

Originally educated as a macro economist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in conflict resolution and humanitarian issues around the World, particularly in Africa. She devoted herself full-time to fiction writing in 1995.

For several years, she was a member of the Board of the Danish Fiction Writers’ Association and of Danish PEN, as well as of the Editorial Board of the Danish version of the intellectual magazine, Lettre International.

She has lived in a wide variety of places from Brussels, Paris, Milan, to Dar es Salaam and Maputo. Presently, she resides in New York City.

Prizes

Drassow's Prize, Denmark 2014, literary works towards peace & human understanding

Peter Pan Prize, Silverstar, Sweden 2013

Teskedsordnen, Sweden 2012, anti-fanaticism prize

Michael L. Printz Award, USA 2011, for literary excellence

Mildred L. Batchelder Award, USA 2011

Die Zeit, Luchs Preis, Germany, August 2010

Le Prix Libbylit 2008, best children's novel of the year published in French, Rien

Cultural Ministry's Prize, Denmark 2001, best children's book of the year, Intet

Tamgha-e-Pakistan by the President of Pakistan, March 23, 2021, for supporting the people of Jammu & Kashmir

Published works

Fiction

Everything, short story collection (2014)

African Roads, novella (2013)

Nothing, novel (2010)

Come, novel (2008)

Europa, novel (2004)