夏天敏作品精選（英文版）

　　《夏天敏作品精選》選錄作者中篇小說八部：《好大一對羊》《徘徊望云湖》《接吻長安街》《好大一棵桂花樹》《飛來的村莊》《冰冷的鏈條》《北方、北方》和《土里的魚》，其中《好大一對羊》獲第三屆魯迅文學(xué)獎。作品均以貧瘠的滇東北高原為背景，在描寫那里農(nóng)村艱苦、單調(diào)、落后的生活狀況和農(nóng)民愚昧、保守的思想的同時，表達了新一代農(nóng)民思變的強烈愿望。 The Selected Works of Xia Tianmin includes eight novellas： Two Great Sheep， Around Wangyun Lake， To Kiss in Chang’an Street， A Big Osmanthus Tree， A Flying Village， Cold Chain， North， North， and Fish in the Earth. Two Great Sheep won the Third Lu Xun Literature Award. These works tell stories of the barren plateau in northeast Yunnan Province， Southwest China. While giving an account of the tough， monotonous and primitive living conditions in the rural areas as well as ignorance and conservative thinking of farmers， they also portray the strong desire to change among the new generation of farmers.

　　夏天敏，云南省昭通市人。20世紀(jì)80年代中期開始文學(xué)創(chuàng)作，曾發(fā)表中短篇小說200余萬字。已出版散文集《情海放舟》，中短篇小說集《鄉(xiāng)場上的皮匠》《飛來的村莊》《鄉(xiāng)村雕塑》等12本書。根據(jù)中篇小說《好大一對羊》改編的同名電影獲加拿大維多利亞最佳故事片獎、法國維蘇爾國際電影節(jié)最佳亞洲促進獎和美國華盛頓特區(qū)獨立電影節(jié)最佳評審團大獎。 Xia Tianmin， a native of Zhaotong City， Yunnan Province， started writing in the mid-1980s and has published works of more than 2 million Chinese characters. He has written 12 books， for example， the prose collection A Deep Love in the Plateau， novella collections A Cobbler at the Rural Fair， A Flying Village， and Rural Sculptures. The film Two Great Sheep adapted from the novella of the same name won the Best Feature Film Award at the Victoria Film Festival， Canada， the Best Asian Film Promotion Award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas， France and the Jury Grand Prize at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival.