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Don Watson (born 1949) is an Australian author and public speaker. ==Biography== Watson grew up on a farm in Gippsland, took his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and a PhD at Monash University〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Don Watson – Prominent Monash Alumnus )〕 and was for ten years an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his hand to TV and the stage. For several years he combined writing political satire for the actor Max Gillies with political speeches for the then Premier of Victoria, John Cain. In 1992 he became Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating's speech-writer and adviser and his best-selling account of those years, ''Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM'', won both The Age Book of the Year and non-fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year. In addition to regular books, articles and essays, in recent years he has also written feature films, including ''The Man Who Sued God'', starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and ''Passion'', a film about Percy Grainger starring Richard Roxburgh. His 2001 Quarterly Essay ''Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America'' won the inaugural Alfred Deakin Prize in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate ) 〕 ''Death Sentence'', his book about the decay of public language, was also a best seller and won the ''Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year''. ''Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words'' was published in 2004 and continued to encourage readers to renounce what he perceives to be meaningless corporate and government jargon that is spreading throughout Australia, and to embrace meaningful, precise language. More recently, Watson contributed the preface to a selection of Mark Twain's writings, ''The Wayward Tourist''. ''American Journeys'' is a narrative of modern America from Watson's travels in the United States following Hurricane Katrina. It was published by Knopf in 2008 and won both The Age Book of the Year non-fiction and Book of the Year awards.〔(Steger, Jason (2008) "US travel memoir wins Age Book of the Year Award" in ''theage.com.au'', 2008-08-23 )〕 It also won the 2008 Walkley Award for the best non-fiction book. In 2014 "The Bush; Travels in the heart of Australia" 〔(Hamilton )〕 was published to critical acclaim for its content and for the beauty and effectiveness of Watson's writing. 〔(McDonald, "Sydney Morning Herald", 2014-09-19; Paul Daly, "The Guardian", 2014-09-22; John Hirst, "The Monthly" 2014-10; Thomas Keneally, "The Australian", 2014-11-01 )〕 It is a combination of personal and family memoir, travelogue, history, natural history and reflection in which Watson invites readers to ponder the bush and its place in the story of Australia and Australians, both Indigenous and post-1788 arrivals and their descendants, those of the past and those of today. 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「Don Watson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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