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"Europe in Fifty Years: The Return of a Broken Continent" Author: [UK] Jane Morris Translator: Fang Jun/Lv Jinglian CITIC Publishing Group
"Europe in Fifty Years: The Return of a Broken Continent" Author: [UK] Jane Morris Translator: Fang Jun/Lv Jinglian CITIC Publishing Group
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is a collection of impressions of Jane Morris's fifty years of travels in various European countries. The book starts with Trieste and ends with Trieste; it is divided into five themes, each of which starts from this city and extends to all parts of Europe. The author wanders around Europe, and speaks from what she sees and feels, from religious heresy to art, from the historical origins of race and territory to customs and habits, from the Holy Roman Empire to the European Union. With her unique historical perspective, she paints a delicate picture of European history and culture for readers. It goes far beyond the scope of travel literature and sets a new boundary for literary writing. Morris, with her profound skills and rich experience, explores and sorts out the essence of Europe. From the history of Christianity to the nation, culture and history of various countries. Morris outlines the main trend of European history.
About the Author
Jan Morris (1926-2020), formerly known as James Morris, is a British writer, historian, and travel writer. He served in the British Army during World War II and was stationed in Trieste. In the 1950s, he worked as a reporter for The Times and The Guardian, traveling around the world to report on many major historical events, including the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956, and the Eichmann Trial in 1961. He won the George Polk Journalism Award in 1960 for his outstanding overseas reporting.
From the mid-1960s, he became a freelance writer, traveled the world, and began his transition from male to female. He finally underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972 and changed his name from "James" to "Jane".
In her writing career of more than half a century, she has published more than 40 works, including many historical works on the rise and fall of the British Empire, many fictional novels, many memoirs, as well as numerous travel literature works and essays. With her keen insight and extensive historical literacy, the history and reality, world conditions and human hearts of the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, America, Africa, Australia and other places have all been condensed into eternal moments in her writing.
For her outstanding contribution to travel writing, she won the Thomas Cook Travel Literature Award Special Prize in 2004 and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing in 2018. She was awarded the Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement by the British PEN Club in 2005, and in January 2008, she was ranked 15th in the "Top 50 British Writers Since 1945" by The Times.
She died on November 20, 2020 at her home in Wales at the age of 94.
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