越裔作家阮文清主编《2026年美国最佳短篇小说》出版：从数千篇作品中选出20篇，以爱与渴望为题
美国年度选集《2026年美国最佳短篇小说》（The Best American Short Stories 2026）10月20日由 Mariner Books 出版，客座主编是越裔美国作家阮文清（Viet Thanh Nguyen）。他从过去一年发表的数千篇短篇小说中选出20篇，入选作者包括 Aimee Bender、Nathan Englander、Louise Erdrich、Sigrid Nunez、George Saunders、Akhil Sharma、Vu Tran、Paul Yoon 等。出版方介绍称，这一卷的核心是「爱」——阮文清把入选作品形容为「好到可能对你有害」，书中人物「真实得令人心碎」。该书为平装本，352页，定价18.99美元，常任编辑为 Nicole A. Lamy。
阮文清的公开履历多与战争、记忆和难民经验相连，这次他为选集挑的是另一个主题：爱与渴望。旧金山当地媒体10月25日的报道指出，这本书对湾区读者还有一层「回家」的意味：阮文清的本科与博士学位都取自加州大学伯克利分校（University of California, Berkeley），是该校英语专业1992届与1997届毕业生。
阮文清1971年生于越南 Buon Ma Thuot，1975年随家人以难民身份来到美国，最终在 San Jose 定居，父母在当地经营一家越南杂货店。他现为南加州大学（University of Southern California）英语、美国研究与族裔研究教授。其2015年出版的首部长篇小说《同情者》（The Sympathizer）获2016年普利策小说奖，并被改编为 HBO 限定剧；他还于2017年获麦克阿瑟基金会奖金与古根海姆奖金。
Viet Thanh Nguyen Guest-Edits 'The Best American Short Stories 2026': 20 Stories of Love and Longing Chosen From Thousands, Published October 20
The Best American Short Stories 2026, the latest volume of the long-running annual anthology, was published on October 20 by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, with Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen as guest editor. Nguyen chose 20 stories from thousands published over the past year. Contributors include Aimee Bender, Nathan Englander, Louise Erdrich, Sigrid Nunez, George Saunders, Akhil Sharma, Vu Tran and Paul Yoon. The publisher says love lies at the heart of the volume — stories Nguyen calls "so good that they may be bad for you," with characters who feel "heartbreakingly true." The paperback runs 352 pages and is priced at $18.99; Nicole A. Lamy is the series editor.
Nguyen's public body of work has largely engaged war, memory and the refugee experience; for this anthology he went looking for something else: love and longing. A San Francisco newspaper profile published on October 25 noted a Bay Area homecoming angle: Nguyen earned both his undergraduate degree and his doctorate in English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the English classes of 1992 and 1997.
Nguyen was born in 1971 in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam. His family arrived in the United States as refugees in 1975 and eventually settled in San Jose, California, where his parents ran a Vietnamese grocery store. He is now a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His debut novel, The Sympathizer (2015), won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an HBO limited series; he also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.
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图片来源：图：阮文清（右）2024年8月24日在 Washington 出席国会图书馆全国图书节对谈（资料图，中为作家 Ayana Mathis、左为主持人 Eric Deggans）。照片：Elaina Finkelstein／国会图书馆，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons。Photo: Viet Thanh Nguyen (right) at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2024 (file photo; center: Ayana Mathis; left: moderator Eric Deggans). Photo by Elaina Finkelstein / Library of Congress, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
