2017.03.12 作家玛丽安-凯斯

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Marian Keyes.

Her twelve novels to date have sold 35 million copies and are published in 33 languages. Some of her novels have been adapted for the screen. She has also published three volumes of journalism.

Marian was born the eldest of five children in Ireland in 1963. While she was academically successful at school, she says she wasn't taught to think for herself, which left her ill prepared for university where she studied law.

After completing her degree, but failing to get apprenticed to a law firm in Dublin, she moved to London. She spent her twenties working as a waitress, and began drinking heavily. She went into rehab for her alcoholism when she was 30.

Her fortunes changed once she was sober: she sent some short stories she had written the previous year off to a publisher and had her debut novel published in 1995.

Marian has described each of her books as "a comedy about something serious" and says they are a reflection of who she is:
"I'm very bleak, really melancholic. But I've always used humour as a survival mechanism. I write for me and I need to feel hopeful about the human condition. So no way I'm going to write a downbeat ending. And it isn't entirely ludicrous to suggest that sometimes things might work out for the best."



作家玛丽安-凯斯。

她的12部小说迄今已售出3500万册，以33种语言出版。她的一些小说已被改编为电影。她还出版了三卷新闻作品。

玛丽安1963年出生在爱尔兰，是五个孩子中的老大。虽然她在学校里学业有成，但她说没有人教她独立思考，这使她在大学学习法律时准备不足。

在完成学位后，由于未能在都柏林的一家律师事务所当学徒，她搬到了伦敦。她在二十多岁时做了一名女招待，并开始大量饮酒。她在30岁时因酗酒而进入康复中心。

戒酒后，她的命运发生了变化：她把前一年写的一些短篇小说寄给了出版商，并在1995年出版了她的首部小说。

玛丽安将她的每本书都描述为 "关于严肃事物的喜剧"，并说它们是她本人的反映。
"我非常暗淡，真的很忧郁。但我总是把幽默作为一种生存机制。我为自己而写，我需要对人类状况感到有希望。所以我不可能写出一个悲观的结局。而且，有时事情的结果可能是最好的，这也不是完全可笑的。"