2月16日，米菲兔的創造者、荷蘭著名作家兼畫家迪克?布魯納（Dick Bruna）在荷蘭烏得勒支市去世，享年89歲。布魯納在長達60年的職業生涯中總共為米菲兔創作了124幅插圖。米菲兔的圖書已被翻譯成50多種語言，在世界各地銷售了8500萬冊。

Dick Bruna, the beloved author best known as the creator of Miffy, has died aged 89. The Dutch illustrator and writer died on Thursday, his publisher Mercis said in a statement, and leaves behind more than 120 books which sold over 85 million copies.
廣受喜愛的荷蘭插畫家兼作家迪克?布魯納去世了，享年89歲，他以米菲兔創造者的身份而被人們熟知。迪克?布魯納的出版公司Mercis在一份聲明中稱，布魯納于2月16日去世，他的遺作達120多部，銷量超過8500萬本。

Bruna was born into a family of publishers in Utrecht. According to the Guardian, he created more than 100 posters and around 2,000 book jackets for his family's company.
布魯納生于烏得勒支的一個出版家族。據《衛報》報道，他為家族公司設計了100多張海報和約2000本書封。

His first Miffy books, which were inspired by a story he told his own son, were published in 1955 with Miffy going under the name Nijintje.
布魯納的首部米菲兔作品靈感來自于他講給兒子的一個故事，于1955年出版，米菲兔的名字當時叫做Nijintje。

The character would go onto become a "merchandising juggernaut"; one that featured on stationery, children's toys, clothes and other merchandise sold around the world.
擁有米菲形象的文具、兒童玩具、服飾以及其他商品在全世界銷售，它將創造一個“衍生品神話”。

Mercis spokesperson Marja Kerkhof said: "He was very much loved around the world. I remember travelling with him to Australia, to New Zealand, to Asia, to Japan. Wherever he would go people would queue up for signing sessions of his books."
Mercis的發言人Marja Kerkhof稱：“布魯納在全世界深受喜愛。還記得我和他一起去澳大利亞、新西蘭、亞洲、日本旅行的時候，不論布魯納走到哪里，都有人排著隊找他在他的書上簽名。”

Of the success of his illustrations she said: "It is very clear pictures, almost like a pictogram, and the fact that he leaves so much out - he goes to the essence of things - and of course his very strong, powerful primary colours.
對于其插畫作品取得的成功，Kerkhof表示：“這些圖片非常簡潔明了，和象形文字差不多。事實上，他將很多地方都省略了，他表現的是事物的本質，當然他選擇的基色也非常濃烈、有感染力。”

"Even today if you see it in a store, you would think: 'Hey, this looks different to a lot of other things out there.' There is no clutter, it's all very clear."
“即便是今天，如果你在商店里看到他的作品也會認為：‘嘿，它看起來與眾不同’。他的作品明白易懂，并不混亂。”

Bruna was loved most of all in his birthplace, Utrecht where, as one fan pointed out, there is even a traffic light shaped like Miffy in Bruna's honour.
布魯納在他的故鄉烏得勒支最受愛戴，一位粉絲稱，為了紀念布魯納，烏得勒支甚至有一個米菲兔形狀的交通燈。

A museum in Utrecht dedicated to Miffy tweeted the news of his death with a picture of Bruna's beloved character: arms behind her back, and a single tear below her left eye.
烏得勒支的一間米菲兔博物館在推特上發布了他的死訊，配圖是布魯納深受喜愛的米菲兔角色：她的手背在后面，一滴眼淚從她的左眼滑落。

下面一起通過一段視頻來回顧迪克?布魯納和他的米菲兔的故事↓↓↓

英文來源：獨立報
翻譯&編輯：董靜
審校：丹妮