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Ahmed Essop was born in 1931 in India but grew up in Johannesburg. He attended the University of South Africa where he obtained a BA in 1956 and later an honours degree.〔http://www.picadorafrica.co.za/authors.php〕 Employed as a teacher until 1986, Essop gave up teaching to pursue writing full-time. Much of his work focuses on Indians and their roles in South African society, and include racial themes of apartheid.〔http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4302/Essop-Ahmed.html〕 ==Writings== * ''The Dark Goddess'' (1959) (as Ahmed Yousuf) * ''The Visitation'' (1979) * ''The Emperor'' (1984) * ''The Hajji and Other Stories'' (1988) * ''Noorjehan and Other Stories'' (1990) * ''The King of Hearts and Other Stories'' (1997) * ''The Third Prophecy'' (2004) * ''History and Satire in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (2009) * ''The Universe and Other Essays (2010) * ''Exile and Other Poems (2010) * ''The Moors in the Plays of Shakespeare (2011) * ''The Garden of Shahrazad and Other Poems (2011) Charles Dickens and Salman Rushdie: A Comparative Discourse (2014) Essop was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize in 1979 by the English Academy of Southern Africa for ''The Hajji and Other Stories'' (1988).〔http://www.englishacademy.co.za/pastwinners.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahmed Essop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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