肯•福萊特（Ken Follett，1949－）

通宵小說大師。

愛倫•坡終身大師奬得主，英國皇傢文學學會會員。31部小說被譯成33種語言，熱銷80多國，纍計銷量已逾1.65億冊。在歐美齣版界，肯•福萊特這個名字就是熱銷的保證。

1978年，他憑藉懸疑小說《針眼》獲得瞭愛倫•坡小說奬，聲名鵲起，從此專職寫作。2010年，獲得國際驚悚懸疑大師奬。2013年，獲得愛倫•坡終身大師奬。2018年，被選為英國皇傢文學學會會員，並獲得大英帝國司令勛章。

一個擁有柏林牆的作傢：柏林市政府為瞭感謝肯•福萊特寫齣瞭《永恒的邊緣》，送給他一塊柏林牆。

一個銅像成為熱門景點的作傢：肯•福萊特等身銅像已成為西班牙維多利亞市的熱門景點，書迷從世界各地趕來閤影。

一個屢屢打破銷售記錄的作傢：肯•福萊特的小說《無盡世界》上市10天就登頂瞭西班牙所有熱銷排行榜。

一個擁有專屬檔案館的作傢：薩基諾榖州立大學為他建立瞭一座檔案館，那裏存放著許多他的資料和手稿,總數超過60000件。

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End.

In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas--about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race--the Black Death.

Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.