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Nick Mamatas ((ギリシア語:Νίκος Μαμματάς)) (born February 20, 1972) is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media. His fiction has been nominated for several awards, including several Bram Stoker Awards, while he has also been recognised for his editorial work with a Bram Stoker Award, as well as World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award nominations. He funded his early writing career by producing term papers for college students, which gained him some notoriety when he described this experience in an essay for Drexel University's online magazine ''The Smart Set''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Paper Market )〕 ==Biography== Nick Mamatas was born on Long Island, New York and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New School University. He is also a graduate of the MFA program in creative and professional writing at Western Connecticut State University, which he attended only after publishing a number of books, short stories, and articles. During his early writing career he wrote not just non-fiction, but also worked as a ghostwriter for college students needing term papers, an experience he later described in an essay called "The Term Paper Artist".〔("The Term Paper Artist" ), article in ''The Smart Set'' by Nick Mamatas〕 His non-fiction work has appeared in ''Razor Magazine'', ''The Village Voice'', and various Disinformation Books and BenBella Books' Smart Pop Books anthologies. His first published fiction book was the 2001 novella ''Northern Gothic'' (Soft Skull), which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2001 Bram Stoker Award Nominees and Winners )〕 In 2007, a signed/limited hardcover edition, illustrated and with a slipcase, was published in German by Edition Phantasia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edition Phantasia's product page for Northern Gothic )〕 His first full-length novel, ''Move Under Ground'' (Night Shade Books, 2004/Prime Books, 2006), combined the Beat style of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. This novel was nominated for both the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominees and Winners )〕 and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 2005, and made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List for books published in 2004. In 2006, ''Move Under Ground'' was one of the first books to be published in paperback by the German publisher Edition Phantasia. In early 2007 he decided to distribute it online for free under a Creative Commons license. His science fiction satire ''Under My Roof'' (Soft Skull, 2007) has been published in both Germany and Italy in addition to its American publication. The German edition was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for science fiction originally published in a foreign language. It came in last place in the voting. In August 2006, Mamatas was named co-fiction editor of ''Clarkesworld Magazine''. In August 2008, he left ''Clarkesworld'' and began working for Viz Media to edit Haikasoru, the firm's line of Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror in translation. ''Clarkesworld's'' 2008 issues earned it a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Mamatas, along with editor Sean Wallace and publisher Neil Clarke, were named as the magazine's principals. The three were also nominated for the World Fantasy award for ''Clarkesworld'' in the nonprofessional special award category, also for the 2008 issues. Three years after leaving Clarkesworld, Mamatas was nominated for the Hugo award in the category of Best Editor, Long Form in 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 2011 Hugo nominees )〕 for his work with the Haikasoru imprint of Viz Media. He co-edited the anthology ''The Future Is Japanese'', which included Ken Liu's story "Mono No Aware," the Hugo award winner for Best Short Story in 2012. Mamatas edited the posthumous collection of short fiction, ''Queen of the Country'', by dark fantasist D. G. K. Goldberg in 2008. A collection of short fiction, ''You Might Sleep...'', including a new novella, was published in March 2009. "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft," written by Mamatas and Tim Pratt, was nominated for the Stoker award for achievement in Short Fiction in March 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominees and Winners )〕 Mamatas co-edited the original horror anthology ''Haunted Legends'' with Ellen Datlow in 2010; the book won the Black Quill Award in the anthology category, won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Homepage )〕 and was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. A Russian-language edition was published in 2015. His third novel, the satirical science fiction ''Sensation'', was published in May 2011 by PM Press, and in July a collaboration with Brian Keene, ''The Damned Highway'', was released. The Damned Highway is similar in vein to Move Under Ground, but instead of Jack Kerouac and his beat style, it is done with Hunter S. Thompson (here referred to as Uncle Lono, a reference to The Curse of Lono) in his famous gonzo journalism style. The fantasy "Bullettime" followed in 2012, and his first crime novel, "Love is the Law"' was published in 2013. A small press edition of a zombie novel, "The Last Weekend" appeared in the United Kingdom in 2014. These books contain themes common to Mamatas's work: radical politics and its failures, New York City settings, manipulations of point of view, and literary riffs on figures such as Thompson, Charles Jackson, and Frederick Exley. ''Starve Better'', a short how-to guide made up primarily of reprinted blog posts and essays from magazines such as ''The Smart Set'' and ''The Writer'' was published in 2011, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the category of Achievement in Non-Fiction. ''The Nickronomicon'', collecting Mamatas's short Lovecraftian fiction, was published by Innsmouth Free Press in 2014. 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「Nick Mamatas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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