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Ivan Bootham (born 1939) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, poet and composer.〔F. W. Nielsen Wright, ''Ivan Bootham: A Descriptive Bibliography''. Cultural and Political Booklets, PO Box 6637, Te Aro, New Zealand. (Second edition) 1999〕 He was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, and migrated to New Zealand as a teenager. He lived in provincial New Zealand – Invercargill, Auckland, New Plymouth, Levin, Lower Hutt – before settling in Wellington, where he now lives. He has worked as a book binding apprentice, farm labourer, shoe salesman, ticket writer/window dresser, radio copywriter, radio programme producer, publicity officer for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and in clerical, advisory, administrative and editorial jobs for various Government departments. == Literary works == Bootham's early novels and short stories attracted favourable reviews, and in 1973 he was awarded a New Zealand Literary Fund Writing Bursary. His 1999 short story collection ''Ivan Bootham Stories'', from Fracas Publications, includes the story "A Change Is As Good As A Rest", which was short-listed for the 1989 Mobil/''Dominion Sunday Times'' short story contest judged by Malcolm Bradbury. His radio plays include ''Mutuwhenua'', an imaginatively dramatised treatment of the 1886 Mt Tarawera eruption. His other pieces for radio include ''Bus Ominibus and But For'', performed by Alan Jervis and Pat Evison and broadcast on the YC Station of the NZBC.〔''NZ Listener'', 31 July 1972 p.32〕 Bootham's most recent works include three novellas published as ''Quince.Noon – the Trilogy'' (2001);〔"Perceiving the pattern". Review of the novella ''Quince.Noon'' (first version) by Graeme Lay, ''NZ Listener'', 29 November 1975, p. 35〕〔Review of the novella Quince.Noon (first version) in Russell Bond Bookshelf column, ''The Dominion'', 4 October 1975〕〔"New fiction". Review of the novella Quince.Noon (first version), ''The Press'', (Christchurch) 31 July 1976〕 a short story collection ''The Book of Cheerful Despair'' (2002);〔 *"The happy artist", ''Capital Times'', Wellington, 17 April 2002, p. 10〕 and a novel ''The Doctor Jesus Sanatorium'' (2003). A theme in much of his fiction is that of the artist struggling to come to terms with the gap between his creative aspirations and his achievements. Bootham has been praised as a highly original comic writer. His tone ranges from the ironic to the acerbic, his constantly self-questioning characters often relishing wordplay and verbal invention. He has also had art criticism and cartoons published,〔Ivan Bootham, "New Zealand Art in the Sixties", article in ''Comment'', Vol.11, No. 2, November 1970〕 including a book of musical cartoons, ''sff''.〔"Musical joke". Review of ''sff'' in ''The Waikato Time''s, 25 November 1976, p. 30〕〔Review of sff in Russell Bond Bookshelf column, ''The Dominion'', 4 December 1976〕 Bootham is a long-term friend of New Zealand's leading art dealer Peter McLeavey, and some of his reminiscences of their friendship are recorded in Jill Trevelyan's biography of McLeavey.〔Trevelyan, Jill, ''Peter McLeavey The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer'', Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-9876688-4-4〕 Bootham is married with twin daughters. He is the son of the painter Joe Bootham. 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「Ivan Bootham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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