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Clive John Sinclair FRSL (born 19 February 1948) is a British author who has published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories, including ''The Lady with the Laptop'' and ''Bedbugs''. ==Biography== Sinclair grew up in North London and was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, PhD), the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Exeter. He was first published as a novelist in 1973, going on to become better known as a writer of short stories. He was the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for the collection ''Hearts of Gold'' in 1981. In 1983, he was recognised in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists.〔(Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists. )〕 He has since published several novels and collections of shorter fiction, in addition to non-fiction, such as biography and travel writing. His stories, interviews, travel pieces and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including ''Encounter'', ''The Year’s Best Horror Stories'', ''New Review'', ''London Magazine'', ''Penthouse'', ''Club International'', ''Transatlantic Review'', ''Lilith'', ''Monat'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'',〔 and ''Contrappasso Magazine''.〔()〕 Between 1983 and 1987 he was literary editor of the ''Jewish Chronicle'', and in 1988 he was the British Council Guest Writer-in-residence at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.〔(Clive Sinclair biography ), British Council.〕 He has also been the British Library Penguin Writer's Fellow, as well as a visiting lecturer, most frequently at the University of East Anglia, but also at the University of California, Santa Cruz, his special subjects being gothic fiction, creative writing, detective fiction, and Holocaust literature. His recent books include ''Clive Sinclair's True Tales of the Wild West'', ''A Soap Opera From Hell: Essays on the Facts of Life and the Facts of Death'' and ''Death & Texas''.〔(''Death & Texas'' on Vimeo. )〕 Sinclair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Royal Society of Literature All Fellows )〕 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「Clive Sinclair (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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