路易斯·沙兹

Louis Sachar (1954–) is the American author of the Newbery Medal-winning novel 《Holes》 (1998, Chinese 《洞》 or 《别有洞天》), adapted into a 2003 Disney film starring Shia LaBeouf. He also wrote the 'Wayside School' series (《歪歪小学的荒诞故事》). The standard mainland transliteration of his surname is 萨查 (Sàchá); 沙兹 is a variant approximating the actual English pronunciation /ˈsækər/. The middle dot · is the standard separator between Western given and family names.

Five characters across two name parts: 路易斯 (Lùyìsī, 'Louis' — the standard transliteration) + 沙兹 (Shāzī, 'Sachar' — phonetic 'Sa-cher'). 路易斯 is the same as for Lewis Carroll's 'Lewis' or Louis Armstrong's 'Louis'.