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一本有关中国大跃进运动的历史著作赢得了由BBC赞助的英国塞缪尔·约翰逊文学奖。 1 F' m7 i5 e \% G! q" F 8 E$ _- N' n! u* U+ ?这本名为《毛的大饥荒Mao's Great Famine》一书的作者是荷兰历史学家冯克(Frank Dikotter),他是在战胜了其他五名候选人后获奖的。# r, q. k) A; u" l
1 l: z- O7 \* V+ Y; S0 g+ X! \评审团主席马辛泰尔赞扬这本书是对“人类愚蠢念头的史诗性记录”。4 f/ d6 P w% j/ Z
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冯克是为数不多获准使用中国历史档案的外国学者之一。 9 H, u7 M0 K. e) e5 V 7 o0 \( J5 I; b% q! I' n" MMao's Great Famine wins Samuel Johnson Prize+ Q* i( i9 n4 a( M# F3 t9 y
; i1 l' y+ R: E' b/ A0 TA book about China's disastrous Great Leap Forward policy has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.; E1 b% ^9 \& N4 W4 S
$ e0 B. O/ @8 |8 N1 kMao's Great Famine, by Dutch historian Frank Dikotter, beat five other short-listed titles to the award. ) z: O3 B9 s) c5 N) _, G; _: O& U4 |) U* x: v' K* }
Chair of the judges Ben Macintyre praised the book as an "epic record of human folly". 1 u4 V- w! N" d1 c8 O7 o) H& o% H! O/ d" `
He added it was "essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the history of the 20th Century". 1 |# U/ C% `- U2 ?/ W! W5 v8 _. ]! s. M
Mao's Great Famine reveals new details of the period from 1958-1962, providing fresh historical perspectives on Mao's campaign to increase industrial production during which tens of millions starved to death. ! X0 O+ Z& t0 y, Q 1 c% P. u) ^; }- jThe academic - currently chair of professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong - was one of a small number of historians to be given access into the Chinese archives.+ ]; Z& Q; ?5 o( ~3 p( _( S$ c
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This year's runners-up were Andrew Graham Dixon's Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles, Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life, and John Stubbs' Reprobates./ ?2 X3 t8 Q, S' S t9 S
) w' R7 [7 w: k5 g1 EThey each received £1,000.* D! ~* j. S/ b6 v( K
9 s Q+ S% q+ S9 T0 q% i* \The prize was open to non-fiction books published in English by writers of any nationality between 1 May 2010 and 30 April 2011.