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Antoni Jach (born 1956) is an Australian novelist, painter and playwright.〔(Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival )〕 His most recent novel is ''Napoleon's Double'', a narrative enlisting history and philosophy for its own neo-baroque ends.〔(Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival )〕 His previous novels are ''The Weekly Card Game'', a tragicomic study of quotidian repetition and ''The Layers of the City'', a meditation on contemporary Paris, civilisation and barbarism (which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award and was translated into Turkish under the title ''Sehrin Katmanlari'').〔(Biography at Melbourne Writer's Festival )〕 Antoni is also the author of a book of poetry, ''An Erratic History'', an idiosyncratic history of Australia and two plays, ''Miss Furr and Miss Skeene'' and ''Waiting for Isabella''. He is the creator of a series of artist videos and his paintings have been on display in an exhibition at Le Globo in Paris. He is the publisher at Modern Writing Press, is as an editorial adviser at the literary journal, Heat, holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has a painting featured on the cover of ''Antipodes'', the literary journal of the American Association for Australian Literary Studies〔(Cover of Antipodes )〕 ==Biography== Jach was born in Melbourne to a Polish father Wladyslaw Jach (the author of a book of poetry ''Most Human Beings are Dreamers'' and of a memoir ''Walk in a Wind'') and Australian mother, Margaret Taylor. Margaret was descended on her mother's side from the Clancys of Castletownroche in Ireland and her forebears on her mother's side arrived in Melbourne on 4 November 1841.〔()〕 It is claimed that Margaret's grandfather, Thomas Gerald Clancy, was the basis for Banjo Paterson's poems 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from Snowy River'.〔Clancy of the Overflow〕 Wladyslaw's father was the mayor of the village of Skronina and Wladyslaw, according to his memoir, spent most of World War II in a Nazi concentration camp. Antoni's first unpublished novel ''Dina Club'' was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1990.〔("An Intelligent Conversation of a Structured Kind' with Antoni Jach )〕 He completed a BA in English & Art History at La Trobe University. He began teaching at RMIT in 1986〔(So You Want To Be A Writer in The Age, 23 April 2003 )〕 where he taught until 2011. He is married to the novelist, Sallie Muirden with whom he has two children. His novels are modernist in style with 'a gift for entering a story from an unexpected angle and for taking an original approach'〔(Writers with readers in mind, The Age 3 October, 2007 )〕 His interest in Europe, particularly France and its intellectuals, has inspired ''Napoleon's Double'' and his exploration of Paris in ''The Layers of the City''. He has interviewed many writers including, most recently, the art-historian and poet TJ Clark〔(Video interview with TJ Clark )〕 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「Antoni Jach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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