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Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, UK) is a British travel writer and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award,〔http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=pastAwards〕 The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award,〔http://www.rslit.org/index.php?n=Awards.Heinemann〕 the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award,〔http://www.thomascookpublishing.com/ba_prev_winners.htm〕 the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award,〔http://www.penusa.org/docs/Master%20List%20of%20PEN%20USA%20Awardees.pdf〕 the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,〔(Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association )〕 and a 1997 Washington State Governor's Writer's Award.〔http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=audience_current_wsba_winners〕 Since 1990 he has lived with his daughter in Seattle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aitkenalexander.co.uk/author.php?recordID=267 )〕 Though he is primarily regarded as a travel writer, Raban’s accounts often blend the story of a journey with rich discussion of the history of the water through which he travels and the land around it. Even as he maintains a dispassionate and often unforgiving stance towards the people he meets on his travels, he does not shirk from sharing his own perceived foibles and failings with the reader. Frequently, Raban’s autobiographical accounts of journeys taken mirror transformations in his own life or the world at large: ''Old Glory'' takes place during the buildup to Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election, ''Coasting'' as the Falklands War begins, and ''Passage to Juneau'' as the failure of the author’s marriage becomes apparent. Similarly melancholic and personal themes of turmoil and loss can be detected in his novels. ==Bibliography== *''The Technique of Modern Fiction'' (1968) *''Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn'' (1968) *''The Society of the Poem'' (1971) *''Soft City'' (1974), ISBN 0-525-20661-2 *''Arabia Through the Looking Glass'' (1979), ISBN 0-00-654022-8 *''Old Glory: An American Voyage'' (1981), ISBN 0-671-25061-2 *''Foreign Land'' (1985), ISBN 0-670-80767-2 *''Coasting'' (1986), ISBN 0-00-272119-8 *''For Love & Money: A Writing Life, 1968-1987'' (1989), ISBN 0-06-016166-3 *''God, Man and Mrs Thatcher'' (1989), ISBN 0-06-016166-3 *''Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America'' (1991), ISBN 0-06-018209-1 *''The Oxford Book of the Sea'' (1992), ISBN 0-19-214197-X *''Bad Land: An American Romance'' (1996), ISBN 0-679-44254-5 *''Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings'' (travel writing; 1999), ISBN 0-679-44262-6 *''Waxwings'' (2003), ISBN 0-375-41008-2 *''My Holy War: Dispatches From the Home Front'' (2006), ISBN 1-59017-175-6 *''Surveillance'' (2006), ISBN 978-0-375-42244-7 *''Driving Home: An American Journey'' (2011), ISBN 978-0-307-37991-7 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「Jonathan Raban」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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