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Ellen Hinsey (born 1960 in Boston) is an American writer. ==Work== Hinsey's work is concerned with history and ethics. Her first-hand accounts and analyses of the impact of the 2012 Russian Presidential Elections, the 2010 Polish Presidential Plane Crash, Hungarian Politics, Václav Havel's Ethical Legacy and post-1989 German reconstruction have been published in ''The New England Review''.〔"Death in the Forest", ''New England Review'', Volume 32, Number 1 / 2011〕 A selection of these essays will be included in her book ''Mastering the Past: Reports from Central and Eastern Europe''. Hinsey’s first book, ''Cities of Memory'', draws on her experiences at the Berlin Wall on the weekend of November 9, 1989, as well as in Prague during the Velvet Revolution.〔http://pionline.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/an-interview-with-ellen-hinsey-2009/〕 The book received the Yale Series Award and was published by Yale University Press in 1996. Her second book, ''The White Fire of Time'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2002 / Bloodaxe Books, 2003), written after a family tragedy, is an exploration of ethics and renewal. Beginning in February 2002, she traveled to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague to listen to witness sessions.〔http://pionline.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/an-interview-with-ellen-hinsey-2009/〕 Her third book, ''Update on the Descent'', addressed this experience, and is an anatomy of political violence. The book was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. It was published in 2009 by Notre Dame University Press and Bloodaxe Books and has been called "an urgent, probing book."〔Wright, Jeffery Cyphers, "(Rapid Transit )", in The Brooklyn Rail, June 2010〕 Her poetry, essays and translations have appeared in ''The New York Times, The New Yorker, Die Welt, The Irish Times, The New England Review, The Paris Review'' and ''Poetry Review (UK)'' among other publications. Hinsey is the editor and co-translator of ''The Junction: Selected Poems of Tomas Venclova'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). Her memoir collaboration with Venclova, ''Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova'', will appear in English, German and Polish editions. Hinsey has translated ''The Secret Piano'', by Zhu Xiao-Mei, an account of growing up under the Cultural Revolution (Amazon Crossing, 2012) and ''Wild Harmonies'', by Hélène Grimaud (Riverhead/Penguin Books, 2005). 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「Ellen Hinsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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