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Laura Solomon (born 1974) is a New Zealand novelist, playwright and poet. Best known as a novelist, her poetry and short stories have also been widely published and short listed for awards and prizes. == Life == Solomon was born in Auckland on 28 June 1974. She grew up in various parts of New Zealand and Australia, including Raetihi, Nelson and Tasmania.〔Kevin Ireland. ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 503〕 She graduated from Nayland College, Nelson, in 1991 and later attended the University of Otago in Dunedin where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and wrote her first novel ''Black Light''. She moved to Wellington in 1996 to do her Honours in English at Victoria University of Wellington. and to write her second novel ''Nothing Lasting''. After graduating from Victoria, Solomon left New Zealand and lived abroad in London, where she wrote ''An Imitation of Life'' and ''Alternative Medicine''. Solomon completed an MSc in Computer Science at Birkbeck College at the University of London in 2003.〔Laura Solomon’s website biography〕 She has travelled internationally for her work in IT, including working in Norway for FAST Search and Transfer, now owned by Microsoft. She returned to New Zealand to live in Nelson in 2007 and currently resides there where she writes full-time. 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「Laura Solomon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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