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Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer. ==Biography== Born in Worcester, England, to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford, then at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on ''The Times'' as assistant arts and literary editor. From 1988 to 1991 he was literary editor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph''. Shakespeare's time in South America is represented in two novels, ''The Vision of Elena Silves'' (1989, Somerset Maugham Award, Betty Trask Award) and ''The Dancer Upstairs'' (1995, American Library Association Award). Other works from this period are ''The Men Who Would Be King'' (1984), ''Londoners'' (1986) and ''The High Flyer'' (1993, long-listed for the Booker Prize). In 1999, Shakespeare published his biography of Bruce Chatwin〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruce-Chatwin-Nicholas-Shakespeare/dp/0099289970〕 to widespread critical acclaim. This was followed by the novel ''Snowleg'' (2004, long-listed for the Booker Prize, Dublin IMPAC Award) a "place" book, ''In Tasmania'' (2004, winner of the Tasmania Book Prize 2006), ''Secrets of the Sea'' (2007, short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's prize) and ''Inheritance'' (2010, long-listed for Dublin IMPAC Award). In 2010, he published ''Under the Sun'', the letters of Bruce Chatwin, which he co-edited with Elizabeth Chatwin. Nicholas Shakespeare has made several extended biographies for television: on Evelyn Waugh, Mario Vargas Llosa,〔http://www.paulyule.com/filmography_mario.html〕 Bruce Chatwin,〔http://www.paulyule.com/filmography_chatwin.html〕 Martha Gellhorn, and Dirk Bogarde.〔''Arena'' 2001, BAFTA "Best Arts Documentary Award", RTS "Best Documentary Award"〕 ''The Dancer Upstairs'' was made into a feature film of the same name in 2002,〔http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dancer_upstairs/〕 for which Shakespeare wrote the screenplay and which John Malkovich directed. Shakespeare was nominated as one of ''Granta''s Best of British Young Novelists in 1993. He has written articles for ''Granta'', the ''London Review of Books'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'' and ''The Monthly'', among other publications. Shakespeare's novels, which have been translated into 20 languages, place ordinary people against a background of significant events, as with ''The Dancer Upstairs'', which deals with Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru's Shining Path; and ''Snowleg'', set partly during the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic. In 1999, Shakespeare was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2010 Shakespeare was invited by the Anglo-Argentine Society to give the prestigious Borges Lecture in London. In 2009, Shakespeare donated the short story "The Death of Marat" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Shakespeare's contribution was published in the ''Earth'' collection.〔(Oxfam: Ox-Tales ).〕 He also contributed a story, "The Return of the Native", to OxTravels, a travel anthology that was produced to raise money for Oxfam's work. In January 2012, according to journalists, Nicholas Shakespeare's writings were mistakenly confused for William Shakespeare's by French presidential candidate François Hollande when he said: "Let me quote Shakespeare, 'they failed because they did not start with a dream'" () In October 2012, Shakespeare travelled to Cambodia with photographer Emma Hardy to visit Oxfam's work. He wrote two articles about the trip, "Beyond The Killing Fields",〔("Beyond the Killing Fields" ), ''Intelligent Life'', January/February 2013〕 which was published in ''Intelligent Life'', and "How The Dead Live",〔("Cambodia: How the dead live" ), ''New Statesman'', 21 February 2013〕 which was published in ''New Statesman''. Since 2000, Shakespeare has been patron of the Anita Goulden Trust, helping children in the Peruvian city of Piura. The UK-based charity was set up following an article that Shakespeare wrote for the ''Daily Telegraph'' magazine, which raised more than £350,000. 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「Nicholas Shakespeare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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