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Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London. To date she has had four novels published: ''Lampshades'',〔 Morin, C.; Lampshades (Secker & Warburg, 1991, republished Minerva 1992, Indigo 1998, Overlook Press (American edition) 1998).〕 ''Penniless in Park Lane'',〔Morin, C.;Penniless in Park Lane (John Calder, 2001)〕 ''Dead Glamorous''.〔 Morin, C.;Dead Glamorous (Gollancz 1996, republished Indigo 1997, Overlook Press (American edition) 1997)〕 and ''Spying On Strange Men'' 〔Morin, C.; Spying On Strange Men (Dragon Ink 2013).〕 Carole Morin's fiction is critically acclaimed and has been described as 'Sylvia Plath with a sense of humour' Glasgow Herald〔Linklater, Alexander. Original to the point of uniqueness; Glasgow Herald,31 October 1991,〕 and 'A Scottish nihilistic Catcher in the Rye' Kirkus Reviews.〔(Book Review ), Kirkus Review, 15 June 1998〕 Paul Golding, writing in The Sunday Times compared her favourably to Françoise Sagan, writing 'Morin exploits the same obsessively introspective, whimsically punctuated stream-of-consciousness technique, but she is a much finer plotter and a hell of a better swearer'.〔Golding, Paul, In the worst possible taste; The Sunday Times, 9 December 1991〕 Jackie McGlone of The Scotsman describes her 'wickedly entertaining pitch black novels' as being 'an ingenious blend of fact and fiction (full of epigrams and authorial apercus).’ 〔(Carole Morin On Fidel Castro And Evil Twins ), Scotsman, 3 March 2013〕 ==Biography== Carole Morin was born in Glasgow. At 16 she became a Junior Diplomat to the United States on an AFS Scholarship. She was Literary Fellow at the University of East Anglia when Lorna Sage (author of Bad Blood) was Dean〔Morin, C.; (A Chapter of Disasters ), The Herald, 29 July 1995〕 She was writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison when it was Category A. She is one of the few writers to have had weekly columns in both the right of centre Spectator and left of centre New Statesman, according to the Scotsman she is the only writer to achieve this.〔McGlone, J; (The queen of bad taste ); Scotsman, 6 January 2002〕 She has also contributed to a number of other newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Scotsman. She has lived in Kampala and Beijing and now lives in London. 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「Carole Morin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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