More than four millennia before Roland Barthes declared "The death of the author” (1967),2 the connection between authorship and metaphorical death had already been eloquently established in a Sumerian hymn known as The Exaltation of Inana. The Exaltation is attributed to Enheduana, a high priestess who lived in the twenty-third century BC in what is now southern Iraq—an attribution that makes her the first known author in the history of world literature. If the reader is surprised to learn that the first known author was a woman, that is due to half a Received: 29 August 2019 | Revised: 29 October 2019 | Accepted: 5 December 2019 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12250

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作者的诞生

在罗兰·巴特宣布“作者之死”（1967 年）2 之前的四千年多，作者身份与隐喻死亡之间的联系已经在苏美尔赞美诗中雄辩地确立了，该赞美诗被称为“伊纳纳的提升”。这种提升归功于 Enheduana，一位生活在公元前 23 世纪的女祭司，居住在现在的伊拉克南部——这一属性使她成为世界文学史上第一个已知的作者。如果读者惊讶地发现第一个已知的作者是一位女性, 那是由于半个 收到：2019 年 8 月 29 日 | 修订日期：2019 年 10 月 29 日 | 接受：2019 年 12 月 5 日 DOI：10.1111/oli.12250