璀璨时刻 | 2018普利策颁奖典礼，为自由和人民福祉而战

美国东部时间5月30日，2018年普利策午餐会暨颁奖典礼在哥伦比亚大学洛氏图书馆（Columbia University's Low Library）举行。午餐仪式由普利策评选委员会会长黛娜·坎纳迪（Dana Canedy）和哥伦比亚大学校长李·C·布林格（Lee C. Bollinger）主持，布林格校长发表简短讲话。

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在每年的年度事件中，普利策奖的颁奖典礼都是意义非凡。一是因为当下世界不再以获奖为目标，再者，普利策奖不但总结了过去一年我们生活中发生过的事，还标志着新闻界和艺术界的不断创新，这些非凡之作记录下我们的生活，也正因如此普利策奖得到了专业人士和公众的广泛关注。普利策奖为何能有今天这般崇高地位，这似乎仍是一个谜，但我们知道，只有在评选过程中始终秉承公正，普利策奖才能继续保有它的荣光。作为普利策奖评选委员会委员和哥大这所顶尖学府的校长，我能够证明，在如黛娜·坎纳迪一样优秀的普利策评选委员会会长的帮助下，才华横溢的普利策人尽心尽职，呈现人类所能做到的最好，这是我在其他任何地方都未曾见过的。

In any given year, the awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes is a singular moment in the annual cycle of noted and noteworthy events. The Prizes stand out in a world not wanting for awards and prizes, capturing the attention of professionals and the broader public because they somehow seem both to sum up what has just happened in our lives while marking the extraordinary creativity in journalism and the arts that have so illuminated these happenings. How prizes achieve this status is something of a mystery, but we know that they can only continue to have it if there is a deep integrity to the process of selection over time, and, I am always happy to testify as a Board member, as well as the President of this great University, that I’ve never been part of anything that has more dedication from more talented people committed to doing the best job humanly possible than is the case with the Pulitzer Prizes, helped in this regard by great Administrators like Dana Canedy.

一直以来，普利策奖的重要价值无可比拟，但我认为今年的普利策奖足以在它世纪之久的历史上写下浓墨重彩的一笔。这不仅是因为普利策奖踏入了更为宽广的领域，吸引了更多杰出人才——就像我们如今涉足音乐界一样——还是因为我们所处的时代亟需更多对于权力滥用的解读与挑战。站在政治前沿，我认为我们的国家正面临着严峻的挑战。一个世纪以前普利策奖刚刚设立，在那时，我们的基本价值观和社会制度奠定了民主的基础；到了现在，普利策奖站在了与我们社会中迭出的独裁斗争的前线。我曾很多次提到，普利策奖创立于1919年，而几乎同时，美国最高法院开始修订宪法，让我们今天所拥有的言论自由、新闻自由的权利受到宪法的保护。同样，普利策奖的设立也是对当时全美范围内日益高涨的监管和审查制度的反击。毫无疑问，我们是幸运的，因为在自治和法治的框架下，自由的堡垒和寻求真理、保护真相的基本价值观已经生根发芽，并蓬勃发展着。在我看来，这已经成功了。

So, the Pulitzers are always uniquely important, but I believe this year will stand out in the now century-long history of the Prizes as among the most important. This is not only because of the new and wider reach of the Prizes into realms where creative genius resides, such as we do today with music, but also because we are living in an era that demands of us a new understanding of and confrontation with the abuses of power. On the political front, I think it is clear that the nation is facing the most serious internal attacks on the fundamental values and institutional structures that define a democracy since the Pulitzers were introduced a century ago — then precisely to counteract problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. As I have noted on many occasions, the inauguration of the Prizes was nearly simultaneous to the beginnings of the Supreme Court cases in 1919 that formed the basis of the modern notions we have now about the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and press. This, too, was prompted by the alarm over the rising tide of intolerance and censorship that was floating across the country. We are, indeed, fortunate that these, and other, bulwarks of freedom and respect for basic values of truth-seeking — and truth protection — in a framework of self-government and a Rule of Law — took root, prospered, and, I think, on the whole, succeeded.

现在，我相信我们能够捍卫我们宝贵的民主，正如在今天这个午后我们聚集在这里，带着明确的方向和甘愿奉献的决心，因为民主定义了美国这个国家最辉煌的时刻，也激励着世界上拥有同样理想的人们。

So much so that I personally feel confident we can now, with clear focus and deep dedication, such as we are recognizing here this afternoon, preserve the character of genuine democracy that has defined the nation in its best moments and inspired so many around the world.

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李·布林格校长为2018年普利策突发新闻摄影奖得主、《进步日报》摄影记者Ryan Kelly颁奖

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李·布林格校长为2018年普利策小说奖得主Andrew Sean Greer颁奖

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李·布林格校长为2018年普利策历史奖得主Jack E. Davis颁奖

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李·布林格校长为2018年普利策诗歌奖得主Frank Bidart颁奖

李·布林格校长为2018年普利策非虚构写作奖得主James Forman Jr.颁奖

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