Well, it's my pleasure now to introduce our first speaker,
好的,现在我很荣幸介绍今天的第一位演讲者
who will be I think known to some people
我想那些在Rewley House听过课的
who have attended events at Rewley House.
可能已经认识他
It's Peter Kemp.
他就是彼得·坎普
He's currently the chief fiction Reviewer of the Sunday Times
现任,星期日泰晤士报,首席小说评论员
and he is a visiting fellow of Kellog College Oxford.
同时是牛津凯洛格学院的客座研究员
Peter is one of those people who did something
彼得所做的事情
that a lot of academics dream of doing.
是众多学者梦寐以求的
that he started as university lecturer
他从做大学讲师开始
and ending up as broadcaster and journalist.
最终成为一名播音员和新闻工作者
He, as an academic, wrote a number of critical books
作为学者,他著有多本关于穆里尔·斯巴克
on Muriel Spark, on H.G. Wells, on Edith Wharton.
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯和伊迪丝·华顿的重要作品
And since then he has edited
并从那时起为
the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations.
牛津词典编辑典故
He is a regular broadcaster on Radio 3, Radio 4,
他定期在广播3台和广播4台主持
programs like Night Waves and Front Row Saturday Review,
夜波和星期六一线评论等节目
and the write stuff which he has to write paradise of authors.
以及写一些高度赞扬作者们的文章
But he has a long-standing in fact lifelong interest in crime fiction,
但事实上犯罪小说是他长期的甚至是终身爱好
and so I thought he would be a good person
所以让他做今天开始的概述部分
to give the overview of the beginning of the day.
再合适不过了
We are going to welcome him back later
之后我们还会再次请到他
when he speaks to Ruth Randell and P.D. James.
当讲到鲁斯·兰德尔和P.D.詹姆斯的时候
His title is Cluedo and Cadavers——History of Crime Fiction.
他的演讲主题是,犯罪小说中寻凶和死尸的历史
So please welcome Peter Kemp.
让我们欢迎彼得·坎普