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Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer. He is, effective Fall 2015, an Assistant Professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chigozie Obioma )〕 He has been called, in a ''New York Times'' book review, "the heir to Chinua Achebe."〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/the-fishermen-by-chigozie-obioma.html?_r=0〕 His first novel, ''The Fishermen'', is on the shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Man Booker Prize announces 2015 shortlist )〕 He won the innaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award, on the shortlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and on the shortlist for the Edinburgh Festival First Book Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First Book Award - Edinburgh International Book Festival )〕 ''The Fishermen'' was a ''New York Times Sunday Book Review'' Editor's Choice selection,〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/books/review/editors-choice.html?_r=0〕 one of the American Library Association's five best debuts of spring 2015,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AAP/LibraryReads: Debut Authors Panel )〕 a ''Publishers Weekly'' book of the week,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 13, 2015 )〕 and one of ''Kirkus Review's'' "10 Novels to Lose Yourself In."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=10 Novels to Lose Yourself In (pg. 1) - Kirkus )〕 Obioma states that, in addition to being a tribute to his siblings, the novel aims to "build a portrait of Nigeria at a very seminal moment in its history (the annulled presidential elections of 1993), and by so doing deconstruct and illuminate the ideological potholes that still impede the nation’s progress even today."〔http://pushkinpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Fishermen-QA-final_PP_formatted.pdf〕 == Early life and influences == Of Igbo descent, Obioma was born in Akure, in the southwestern part of Nigeria, to a family of twelve children: seven brothers and four sisters,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2, 2 and 2: Chigozie Obioma talks about The Fishermen )〕 where he grew up speaking Yoruba, Igbo, and English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michigan Quarterly Review-An Interview with Chigozie Obioma )〕 As a child, he was fascinated by Greek myths and the British masters, including Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Bunyan. Among African writers, he developed a strong affinity for Wole Soyinka's ''The Trials of Brother Jero''; Cyprian Ekwensi's ''An African Night's Entertainment''; Camara Laye's ''The African Child''; and D. O. Fagunwa's ''Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀,'' which he read in its original Yoruba version.〔 Obioma cites his seminal influences as ''The Palm-wine Drinkard'' by Amos Tutuola, for its breath of imagination; ''Tess of the D'Ubervilles'' by Thomas Hardy, for its enduring grace and heart; ''The God of Small Things'' by Arundhati Roy and ''Lolita'' by Vladimir Nabokov, both for the power of their prose; and ''Arrow of God'' by Chinua Achebe, for its firmness in Igbo culture and philosophy.〔http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/04/15/ask-author-chigozie-obioma〕 In 2009, while living in Cyprus to complete his bachelor's degree at Cyprus International University, where he graduated first in his class,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former CIU Student Publishes Novel to International Acclaim )〕 Obioma began writing ''The Fishermen.'' The idea for the novel came when he reflected on his father's joy at the growing bond between his two eldest brothers who, as children, had maintained a strong rivalry that would sometimes culminate in fistfights. As Obioma began pondering what was the worst that could have happened at that time, the image of the Agwu family came to him. Then he created Abulu as the facilitator of conflict between the brothers. On a larger thematic note, Obioma wanted the novel to comment on the socio-political situation of Nigeria: the prophesying madman here being the British, and the recipients of the vision being the people of Nigeria (three major tribes cohabiting to form a nation).〔 Obioma finished the novel during a residency at OMI's Ledig House in 2012,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2, 2 and 2: Chigozie Obioma talks about The Fishermen )〕 and completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, where he received Hopwood Awards for fiction (2013)〔https://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/hopwood/Home/News%20&%20Events/Newsletters/newsletterJune13-web.pdf〕 and poetry (2014).〔https://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/hopwood/Home/News%20&%20Events/Newsletters/newsletterJuly2014.pdf.〕 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「Chigozie Obioma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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