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Molly McCloskey (born 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American writer who has lived in Ireland since 1989.〔(Molly McCloskey Website Bio )〕 Her fiction has won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award (1995) and the inaugural Fish Short Story Prize (1996).〔(Fish Publishing )〕 Her story “Another Country” was anthologized in ''The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories'' (2005), edited by David Marcus. In 2009, another of her short stories, “This Isn’t Heaven” was selected by Richard Ford as one of the prize-winning stories in the 2009 Davy Byrne’s Irish Writing Award and was anthologized in ''Davy Byrne’s Stories''. Her first work of non-fiction, a memoir of her schizophrenic brother Mike, called ''Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother'', was named by The Sunday Times (UK) as its Memoir of the Year for 2011. ==Life== McCloskey, a daughter of well-known basketball coach, Jack McCloskey, spent her early childhood in North Carolina, USA, where her father coached the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.〔(The Dispatch Feb 6, 1970 )〕 Later, after her father was made head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, the family moved to Oregon. McCloskey was educated in St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, which she attended on a sports scholarship.〔(www.ricorso.net Data on Irish Literature devised and compiled by Bruce Stewart )〕 In 1989, she moved to Ireland where she married and settled in Sligo. While living in Sligo, she played basketball with the (Sligo All-Stars team ). In 1998, after a brief return to Philadelphia, she moved to Dublin and completed a Master of Philosophy Degree at University College. She still lives in Dublin. She is a regular reviewer for the Irish Times and has written various pieces for a number of publications, including ''The Guardian'', ''Elle'' and ''The Dublin Review''. In 2009/2010 she was the Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, where she taught on the M. Phil course in creative writing.〔(Past Writer Fellows, Trinity College, Dublin. )〕 She is a member of the Rapid Response Corps of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, a panel of personnel available for deployment around the world by United Nations agencies in times of emergency. She has worked in the UN’s Kenya-based office co-ordinating international aid to Somalia. She has also lived in Kosovo. 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「Molly McCloskey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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