金庸，打造武侠世界的华语文学巨匠

HONG KONG — Jin Yong, a literary giant of the Chinese-speaking world whose fantastical epic novels inspired countless film, television and video game adaptations and were read by generations of ethnic Chinese, died on Tuesday in Hong Kong. He was 94.

香港——华语世界的文学巨匠金庸于上周二在香港去世，享年94岁。一代代华人读过他的奇幻历史小说，这些小说也改编成不计其数的电影、电视剧和电子游戏。

His death, at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, was confirmed by Ming Pao, the prominent Hong Kong newspaper that Jin Yong helped establish and ran for decades. Chip Tsao, a writer and friend, said the cause of death was organ failure.

《明报》确认了他在香港养和医院离世，这份香港著名的报纸由金庸参与创办，已运营数十年。金庸的好友、作家陶杰(Chip Tsao)说，死因是器官衰竭。

Jin Yong, the pen name of Louis Cha, was one of the most widely read 20th-century writers in the Chinese language. The panoramic breadth and depth of the fictional universes he created have been compared to J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and have been studied as a topic known as “Jinology.”

金庸是查良镛的笔名，他是20世纪读者最多的华语作家之一。他创造的虚构世界有着全景式的开阔与纵深，被拿来与托尔金(J.R.R. Tolkien)的《指环王》相提并论，对其小说的研究被称为“金学”。

Jin Yong received his start as a novelist in the mid-1950s while working as a film critic and editor for The New Evening Post in Hong Kong, which was then a British crown colony. He had moved there in 1948 and lived there for most of his life.

金庸从1950年代中开始写小说，时任香港《新晚报》的影评人和编辑。那时候香港还是英国政府的直辖殖民地。他于1948年移居香港，在那里度过了一生的大部分时间。

From 1955 to 1972, Jin Yong wrote 14 novels and novellas and one short story in the popular genre known as wuxia, which consisted mainly of swashbuckling martial arts adventures.

从1955年到1972年，金庸写了14部长篇、中篇和1部短篇武侠小说。武侠是流行的小说类型，主要讲述夸张的功夫冒险。