Novelist Ishiguro’s notes and works head to Texas library 小說家石黑一雄的筆記與作品前進德州圖書館

The sweeping archives of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro will be heading to a University of Texas research library, including a discarded opening chapter for his best-known book, "The Remains of the Day," the university said.

德州大學指出，得獎小說家石黑一雄諸多的文件檔案將會前進德州大學研究圖書館，包括他最知名的小說「長日將盡」一個被棄用的開頭章節。

The novelist, who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and has lived in Britain since he was a child, has kept extensive notes of his novels and multiple drafts of his works that include "Never Let Me Go" and "The Buried Giant."

石黑一雄1954年出生於日本長崎市，自孩提時代於英國生活，一直保存著他小說的大量筆記，與他作品的多版草稿，包括「別讓我走」與「被埋葬的記憶」。

The collection will be going to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, a research library that is a major collector of manuscripts and original source material. The university paid just over $1 million to acquire the material, a library spokeswoman said.

該收藏品將由德州大學哈利蘭塞姆中心收藏，該研究圖書館是手稿與原始素材的主要收藏者。一位圖書館發言人說，德州大學付出剛好超過100萬美元，獲得這些素材。

Ishiguro began to gain notice in the 1980s for his works such as "A Pale View of the Hills" and global fame for "The Remains of the Day," a story of a fastidious and repressed butler in postwar Britain.

石黑一雄在1980年代以諸如「群山淡景」等作品開始受到矚目，之後因描述戰後英國一名一絲不苟、壓抑的管家的故事「長日將盡」而享譽全球。

The novel won him the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction and was turned into a well-received movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

「長日將盡」讓石黑一雄獲得聲譽卓著的布克獎，並改編成一部備受好評的電影，由安東尼˙霍普金斯與艾瑪˙湯普遜主演。

新聞辭典

discarded：形容詞，被丟棄的。動詞為discard，指拋棄、丟棄。例句：Discard your bad habits.（丟掉你的壞習慣。）

fastidious：形容詞，愛挑剔的、過份講究的。例句：He is fastidious about keeping the room clean.（他對房間有潔癖。）

well-received：形容詞，受歡迎的、深受好評的。