Only on a non fiction work to obtain the promise of the award is more than half a century ago things - Churchill in 1953, "World War II memoirs" by this honor.

只因上一本非虚构类作品获得诺奖已经是半个多世纪以前的事情了——1953年丘吉尔以《二战回忆录》获此殊荣。

I prefer reading non-fiction.

我喜欢看纪实作品。

The latest novels are always in great need, and non-fiction books, such as books on history, science and gardening, are well-loved, too.

最新出版的小说总是需求很大，历史、科学、园艺等非小说类书籍也很受欢迎。

We all have favorites, and this is just as true for technical materials as it is for popular works of fiction and non-fiction.

我们都有自己的兴趣爱好，并且，如同对流行小说类以及非小说类的看法一样，对于技术性材料也确实是这样的。

This matters for cultural life, because most literary fiction and serious non-fiction falls into that bracket and much of it could become uneconomical to publish.

这事关文化生活，因为大部分文学小说和严肃的非小说作品都属于非畅销书，其中大部分出版以后都成为了浪费。

The texts can be works of fiction or non-fiction, historical records, civic documents, or anything else noteworthy and free from copyright restrictions.

文本可以是小说或非小说作品、历史记载、公共文档或任何重要的并且不受版权限制的内容。

Is the prize it deserves to win to be for fiction or non-fiction?

它所应得的奖到底是归于科幻还是非科幻类？

Peter Ackroyd has written more than two dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, short and long (his "Dickens" is as good a doorstop as any).

彼得·埃克·罗伊德写过二十多部小说和非小说作品，既有短篇，也有长篇(他的《狄更斯》就像其它相关入门级作品一样的出色)。

A great novelist or non-fiction writer who dies at 28 May not have yet produced her or his magnum opus.

如果一位伟大的小说家或非虚构作家在28岁去世，那他或她可能还没有写出自己的代表作。

What was the last great non-fiction book that you read?

哪一本书是你最近读过的最好的非小说类书？

Considering non-fiction ebooks, such ebooks disseminate knowledge not pages, which means that it is not correct to evaluate the price of an ebook according to the number of its pages.

考虑到非小说类的电子书，这些小说不是按其页数传播知识，也就是意味着我们不应当以一本电子书的页数来判断它的价值。

There are many excellent popular non-fiction books that do a great job entertaining you while teaching about a subject.

会有很多出色而流行的非小说书籍，它们在教你相关知识的同时，还能使你感到快乐。

When I read a novel, I look to it to tell me some truths about human life--the truths that non-fiction cannot reach.

读小说的时候，我希望它能告诉我一些人类生活的真理——非小说类作品所不能触及的真理。

"If you had a 50-page idea, you couldn't make any money from it," he says, so a lot of non-fiction books end up on shelves with 250 unread pages.

“如果你的思想只能写成50页，那你就没法从里面赚到钱，”他说，所以，很多纪实类书籍面市的时候都会带上250页没什么可读性的内容。

Then I would write non-fiction.

如果这样我就不写小说。

When you start reading, you might know nothing about the subject matter (if it's non-fiction) and you won't feel any particular attachment to the characters (if it's fiction).

刚开始看一本书，你可能完全不了解主题（对于非小说类书籍）或者你也不会跟角色建立任何联系（对于小说）。

Cantabrigian go for the serious stuff, it seems; according to Amazon's analysis, Cambridge was also the city that ordered the most non-fiction books.

看起来，剑桥人被认为是严肃的：根据亚马逊的分析，剑桥也是非小说类书籍订单最多的城市。

These techniques for reading apply mostly for non-fiction.

这些阅读技巧主要是针对非小说类图书的。

In Cold Blood, which he immodestly heralded as a new form of non-fiction novel, was received with delirious approval; Norman Mailer dubbed Perry as one of the great characters in American literature.

他用《冷血》毫不客气地宣称了“非虚构小说”的到来，随后他受到了狂乱的追捧。诺曼·梅勒将佩里称为美国文学里最伟大的人物之一。

Indeed, all his non-fiction—he also wrote novels, short stories and poetry—was rigorously analytical.

他的非小说类作品——他也写过诗歌以及短篇小说——思维缜密﹑逻辑清晰。

It's rare to find a work of fiction that can be hysterically funny at some points, while deeply moving and disturbing at others. It's even more unusual to find such qualities in a work of non-fiction.

如果一部虚构作品能够做到时而歇斯底里的滑稽，时而引起深深感动和不安，已经不可多得，而在纪实性文学中这些特质更是千载难逢。

Sure, you can go from reading plays to novels to short stories to poetry to non-fiction.

当然，你可以从阅读戏剧开始，再读小说，再读短篇故事，然后读诗，最后读非小说类文学作品。

Years before the huge success of his "non-fiction novel" in Cold Blood, Truman Capote had already staked out a distinctive place in Hollywood.

在他独创的“非虚构小说”《冷血》大获成功之前，杜鲁门·卡波特已经在好莱坞谋得一席之地了。

I’ve written a novel and a non-fiction book. I write this blog.

我已经写了一部小说并出了一部散文体裁的书。

First, there will be a split between the kinds of books that lend themselves to bells and whistles—mostly non-fiction—and those that do not, mainly novels.

首先，它将是一个能让读者兴奋和无趣的书的分界点，这些书主要是小说而不是侦探书。

While Harvey's tome is non-fiction, the movie version will transform his advice into a quirky love story starring Brown and actor Gabrielle Union.

尽管哈维的著作不是小说类作品，但是自助书改编的电影则会把他的建议变成一部集中叙述布朗和女演员加布里埃尔·尤尼恩的曲折爱情故事。

According to Fleming it is the first time a work of non-fiction has been up for the award.

弗莱明表示，这是非小说类作品首次获得该奖提名。

In this "novel in sixteen stories" from the author of non-fiction bestsellers such as "Salt" and "Cod", food even flavours the story titles, with names such as "Red Sea Salt" and "Menudo".

小说包含16个故事，有些故事的标题中甚至有带着食物的味道，如“红色的海盐”，“牛肚汤”。 小说的作者曾写过几部非小说题材的畅销书，如《盐》，《鳕鱼》。

Matthiesson, 81, previously won the non-fiction award in 1979 for the Snow Leopard, his account of a journey through Nepal.

现年81岁的Matthiessen在1979年曾以记述尼泊尔之旅的《雪豹》一书，荣获书卷奖最佳非小说类作品。

Much of the growth is from books like Rick Warren's "the Purpose-Driven Life," the top-selling non-fiction book in the United States in 2004, selling over 7 million copies.

图书销售总额的大幅增加主要归功于诸如华理克所著的《标竿人生》等此类图书，《标竿人生》是2004年美国最畅销的非小说类图书，其销量超过700万册。