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Dominic Cooper (born 1944) is a British novelist, poet and watchmaker. He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his novel ''The Dead of Winter'' (1975). == Background & career == Born near Winchester, he is the son of musicologist Martin Cooper and artist Mary Cooper. After university, he worked in London for the Decca Record Company and for the publishers, Fabbri & Partners. In 1970, he went to live in Iceland, began to concentrate on writing, and taught English in a language school in Reykjavík to earn a living. In 1972, he moved to Sweden and then to the Isle of Mull in Argyll, Scotland, where he drew inspiration from the landscape and people to write his first novel, ''The Dead of Winter'', published in 1975.〔Newspaper reviews include: C J Driver in ''The Guardian'' 17.04.1975, Jeremy Brooks in ''The Financial Times'' 18.04.1975, ''New Statesman'' 18.04.1975 and James Allan Ford in'' The Scotsman'' 19.04.1975〕 This won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.〔(Somerset Maugham award winners )〕 Little of his poetry has been published, but commenting on the poetic quality of his fiction, he has said: ″By nature I feel myself to be first and foremost a poet ... but poetry for me has always been an essentially private affair and I have never felt any great need for it to be published.″〔See interview with Yves Loisel of Le Télégramme published 31.03.2007 ().〕 He has described writing his fourth book, ''The Horn Fellow'', set in Northern Europe around 500 BC,〔Skinner, Alison. ''Prehistory - the literary dimension'', describes the book in section on modern writers: ().〕 as “perhaps the greatest experience of my life” and its publication as being met “with a mixture of incomprehension and vague ridicule”.〔from archived, unabridged interview supporting article of 31.03.2007 ().〕 He has written little during the intervening years. In 1973 he undertook training in horology in Edinburgh and since then he has worked restoring clocks and watches. He returned to the West Highlands in 1985 and soon afterwards built himself a house on a remote part of the North Argyll coast where he now lives. 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「Dominic Cooper (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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