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马丁·博伊德(Martin Boyd,1893——1972)是澳大利亚小说家,出生于维多利亚州显贵家庭,曾学习建筑设计.第一次世界大战爆发时去英国,在英国军队任职,战后返墨尔本。1921年再度赴英,成为作家。1928年获澳大利亚文学奖金.1957年移居意大利直至去世。他的一生大部分时间是在英国、法国和意大利度过的,在澳大利亚只生活了26个年头。博伊德在澳大利亚文学史上占有独特的地位,他的小说大多以他所熟悉的上流社会家族为题材,通过这些家族浮沉兴衰的历史,反映时代的变迁。作品述叙简洁生动,行文平易流畅。主要作品有《爱神》(1925)、《蒙特福特一家》(1926)、《春天的丑闻》、(1934)、《晨境中的修女》(1940)、《露辛达·布雷福德》(1946),《如此快乐》(1949),以及四部曲《卡纸皇冠》(1952)、《难办的年轻人》(1955))《爱情的奔放》(1957)和《百舌鸟歌唱的时候》(1962)等。本篇介绍博伊德的文章原载于1975年的第二期《西风》杂志,后收入《澳大利亚作家》(1980)一书。
Martin Boyd (1893-1972) is an Australian novelist born in Victoria’s distinguished family who studied architectural design. During the outbreak of World War I went to England, served in the British army, returned to Melbourne after the war . 1921 went to Britain again, become a writer. He was awarded the Australian Literature Prize in 1928. He moved to Italy in 1957 until his death. He spent most of his life in England, France and Italy, living in Australia for only 26 years. Boyd occupies a unique position in the history of Australian literature. Most of his novels are based on the well-known family of upper-class society. Through these families’ ups and downs of history, Boyd reflects the changes of the times. His works are succinct and vivid, writing is easy and smooth. Major works include “Love God” (1925), “The Montfort Family” (1926), “Spring Scandal” (1934), “The Sisters in the Morning Habitat” (1940), “Lucinda Brive” (1946), “So Happy” (1949), and the Quadruplet Jamie Crown (1952), The Troubled Youngster (1955), The Unrestrained Love (1957) "(1962) and so on. This article about Boyd was originally published in the second issue of Westwind Magazine in 1975 and later repossessed The Australian Writer (1980).