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Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer. == Career == Born New South Wales, Australia, she trained for an acting career in Queensland, after a year with a theatre company in Sydney.〔(Biography: "Kathryn Heyman" ), Royal Literary Fund〕〔(Biography: Kathryn Heyman ), Austlit Database〕 Heyman spent a decade living in the United Kingdom, where she was first published. 〔Heyman, 'There's no place like home' ''Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend'', no. 15 July 2006, pp. 31–32.〕 Heyman is the author of five novels: ''The Breaking'' (1997), ''Keep Your Hands on the Wheel'' (1999), ''The Accomplice'' (2003) ''Captain Starlight's Apprentice'' (2006) and ''Floodline'' (2013).〔(Allen & Unwin ), publisher〕 She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing fellowships in the UK and Australia. Her short stories have appeared in a number of collections and also on radio. Heyman's first novel, ''The Breaking'', was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award.〔 McMillan,Joyce, A familiar fear and loathing, ()''Glasgow Herald'' Friday 21 November 1997〕 Her third, ''The Accomplice'', won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. ''The Accomplice'' is a fictional account of the wreck of the Dutch flagship the ''Batavia'' off the Australian coast in the 17th century. As a meditation on complicity with evil it has been compared with the work of Joseph Conrad and William Golding.〔Chevalier, Tracey et al ("Summer Reading", ) ''The Guardian'', 2003〕 Her fourth novel, ''Captain Starlight's Apprentice'', features a woman bushranger, the birth (and near death) of the Australian film industry, and a British migrant to Australia who undergoes electroconvulsive therapy. In 2007 the novel was shortlisted for the Nita Kibble Literary Award. ''Floodline'', published 2013, is set during the aftermath of a great flood, and has been compared with the writing of Cormac McCarthy.〔Clarke,Stella, () City's souls lost and saved in the flood, ''The Australian'', 14 September 2013〕 Heyman's writing has also been compared with that of Angela Carter,〔Sanders, Kate ''The Times'' 27 May 2006〕 David Malouf,〔Duncan, Shirley J. Paolini, 'Outlaw odyssey.(Captain Starlight's Apprentice)(Book review)' Antipodes, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 89(2).〕 Peter Carey and Kate Grenville.〔White, Judith ''The Bulletin'' 30 May 2006〕 Heyman's work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and a five-part dramatic adaptation of ''Captain Starlight's Apprentice'' was broadcast on ''Woman's Hour'' in April 2007.〔(BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – ''Captain Starlight's Apprentice'' )〕 In 2013 she delivered the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Address.〔http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/premiers_awards/nsw_premiers_literary_awards/2013/2013_nsw_premiers_literary_awards_address.html〕 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「Kathryn Heyman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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