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Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.〔(Antonio Skármeta es el nuevo Premio Nacional de Literatura ). cooperativa.cl. 22 August 2014〕 ==Biography and career== His 1985 novel and film〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ardiente Paciencia (film) )〕 ''Ardiente paciencia'' ("Ardent Patience") inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, ''Il Postino'' (''The Postman''). Subsequent editions of the book bore the title ''El cartero de Neruda'' (''Neruda's Postman''). His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide. Skármeta studied philosophy and literature both in Chile and at Columbia University in New York. From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile (first to Buenos Aires and later to West Berlin), he taught literature at the University of Chile. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berlinale: Juries )〕 In 1989, after the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship, the writer returned to Chile in order "to create political space for freedom". He hosted a television program on literature and the arts, which regularly attracted over a million viewers. From 2000 to 2003 he served as the Chilean ambassador in Germany. He teaches classes at Colorado College both in Santiago, and Colorado Springs. In 2011 his novel ''Los días del arco iris'' won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world worth $200,000.〔(Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa ), official website〕 His unpublished play ''El Plebiscito'' was the basis of Pablo Larraín's successful drama film ''No''. 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「Antonio Skármeta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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