编前语:加拿大女作家艾丽丝·门罗荣获诺贝尔文学奖无疑是本年度世界文坛的一件大事。至少在两个意义上让人印象深刻,其一,兹为地广人稀的加拿大首获该奖;其二,兹为以短篇小说获该奖的首位作家。82岁高龄的女作家问鼎诺奖桂冠当之无愧,其非大器晚成,学生时代就喜欢写作,18岁发表处女作;只是困于经济条件,大二即退学、结婚、生育,接着便是相夫、教女、家务……无穷无尽;直到37岁出版 Preface: Canadian woman author Alice Monroe won the Nobel Prize for Literature is undoubtedly a major event in the world literary world this year. It is impressive in at least two sense. First, it was the first of its kind in Canada. Second, it was the first writer to win the award in a short story. 82-year-old female writer won the Nobel Prize well-deserved, its non-dramatic late into the student age like writing, debut at the age of 18 debut; just stuck in economic conditions, sophomore that drop out, marriage, childbirth, Housework ... Endless; Published until 37