本条目是关于洛伊丝·洛利的著作。

《授者》（The Giver） 是一部人文科幻小说。作者洛伊丝·洛利，于1993年4月16日出版。小说开篇构建了一个类似乌托邦的未来社会。随着情节铺展，逐渐幻化成反面乌托邦。小说描述一个名叫乔纳斯的男孩在12岁那一年发生的故事。经过刻意同化，乔纳斯生活的社区没有痛苦，也没有冲突，人们的生活不带一丝感情。乔纳斯被挑选出来接任“记忆接受者”这个职位，接受同化之前人类所有的记忆，以备在需要的时候使用。乔纳斯从他的前任——授者——乔纳斯获得了这些记忆，他发现他所生活的社区极为浅薄封闭。

尽管存在着争论和批评，认为本书主题并不适合少年儿童，《记忆传承人》还是获得了1994年的纽伯瑞儿童文学奖，销售量过三百五十万册。在美国，它位列很多初级中学的必读书目，但是同时本书也属被禁之列（“见以下争议”）。人们惯常把这部小说和《历史刺绣人》（Gathering Blue）（2000年），《森林送信人》（Messenger）（2004年），以及《我儿佳比》（Son）（2014年）并称理想国四部曲，前三集看似并不相关，但于第四集作结局的揭晓。

The Giver is a 1993 American young-adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be a utopian society but is revealed to be a dystopian one as the story progresses. The novel follows an 11 year old boy named Jonas. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community's decision making. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate and terrain, all in effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality.