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Jacqueline Jill Robinson (born June 16, 1955) is a Canadian writer, editor and teacher. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including ''Geist'', the ''Antigonish Review'', ''Event'', ''Prairie Fire'' and the ''Windsor Review''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2012-06-04 )〕 Her novel, ''More In Anger'', published in 2012, tells the stories of three generations of mothers and daughters who bear the emotional scars of loveless marriages, corrosive anger and misogyny.〔Volmers, Eric. "J. Jill Robinson explores dark inheritences in new novel: More in Anger," ''Calgary Herald'', June 1, 2012.〕 Robinson has won numerous literary competitions including two Western Magazine Awards, two Saskatchewan Book Awards, two prizes for creative nonfiction from ''Event'' magazine, the PRISM international fiction contest and the Howard O'Hagan award for short fiction from the Writers Guild of Alberta.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2011-09-19 )〕 Her novel and stories have also won critical acclaim for their vivid characters, spare writing and tragic themes that nevertheless convey humour and hope.〔〔 Robinson served as the 24th writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library during 2004-2005. From 1995 to 1999, she was editor of the literary magazine ''Grain'', published quarterly by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. She has taught English literature and creative writing at the Universities of Calgary and Saskatchewan, at St. Peter's College in Muenster, Saskatchewan and at the First Nations University of Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-09-19 )〕 Robinson is married to the writer Steven Ross Smith and is the mother of a teenaged son.〔Clemence, Verne. "Happy endings can't be guaranteed," ''The StarPhoenix'' (Saskatoon), October 25, 2003, p. E13.〕 She lives in Banff, Alberta.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2011-09-19 )〕 ==Making of a writer== J. Jill Robinson was born in Langley, British Columbia in 1955, but she also had family ties to Alberta. Her mother grew up in Calgary while her father, a doctor, was from Banff.〔 Robinson's family loved books. "We don't want to get into the dynamics of my family," she once told a journalist, "because they were awful. One of the best things about my family was the mutual love of books. We would all go to different rooms and read them."〔Mandel, Charles. "From OZ to naked painful truths," ''Edmonton Journal'', January 21, 1996, p. E4.〕 In the late 1970s, Robinson was living in Radium Hot Springs, B.C. when she decided she needed more education. She enrolled at the University of Calgary in 1979 and by 1985 had earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and drama as well as a Master's degree in Canadian and American literature.〔〔McGoogan, Ken. "NON-FICTION BOUNDARIES BLUR," ''Calgary Herald'', April 3, 1993, p. D13.〕 Her Master's thesis was entitled, ''The circumferential vision: love and death in the poetry of Emily Dickinson''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-09-26 )〕 In 1987, Robinson began writing seriously for the first time while attending the Banff School of Fine Arts. A year later, she enrolled in the creative writing program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "I was the only Canadian in a graduate program with just 12 students in it...and it was great," she told a reporter in 2004. She added that the program provided her with "a toolbox of techniques for writing and skills" while giving her a chance to read a wide variety of American writers. "That was really when it became clear that there was no doubt in my mind I was going to be a writer."〔Paulson, Joanne. "Robinson natural writer," ''The StarPhoenix'' (Saskatoon), October 20, 2004, p. D1.〕 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「J. Jill Robinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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