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格雷厄姆·格林(Graham Greene,1904～1991),出生于英国中部赫特福德郡一个富裕的家庭,大学就读于牛津大学贝利奥学院,早在1925年就出版了第一部诗集《潺潺的四月》(Babbling April)。大学毕业后,格林曾做过新闻记者,并于1926年皈依天主教。第二次世界大战爆发后,格林先为情报部服务,后加入军情六处,曾被派驻非洲,这一段经历为他未来的小说创作提供了大量的素材。1944年,格林退出情报岗位,成为自由撰稿人。格林曾先后二十余次获诺贝尔文学奖提名,是英国20世纪最重要的小说家之一。他将自己的小说创作分为两类:消遣小说和严肃小说。前者以紧张刺激的故事吸引读者,后者则着重展现人物复杂的内心世界。格林的代表作《权力与荣耀》(The Power and the Glory)、《问题的核心》(The Heart of the Matter)、《恋情的终结》(The End of the Affair)、《人性的因素》(The Human Factor)等都属于后者。
Graham Greene (1904-1991), was born in a wealthy family in Hertfordshire, central England, attended Beller College of Oxford University, as early as 1925 published the first collection of poems “ Babbling April. ” After graduating from college, Green had been a journalist, and in 1926 converted to Catholicism. After the outbreak of World War II, Green first served the intelligence service, later joined the MI6 and was stationed in Africa. This experience provided a great deal of material for his future novel creation. In 1944, Green quit his post as a freelance writer. Green was nominated more than twenty times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of the most important novelists in the 20th century in the United Kingdom. He divided his novels into two categories: recreational novels and serious novels. The former attracts readers with exciting stories, while the latter focuses on the complicated inner world of characters. Green’s masterpieces The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Human Factor) belong to the latter.