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Nina Allan is a British writer of speculative fiction. She has published four collections of short stories, a novella and a novel. Her stories have appeared in the magazines ''Interzone'', ''Black Static'' and ''Crimewave'' and have been nominated for or won a number of awards, including the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Allan was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, and grew up in the Midlands and in West Sussex. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Reading and the University of Exeter, and then did an MLitt at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford she worked as a buyer for an independent chain of record stores based in Exeter, and then as a bookseller in London.〔(Interview in Rising Shadow )〕 Her first published story appeared in the British Fantasy Society journal ''Dark Horizons'' in 2002. She lives in the Taw Valley area of North Devon. Her column ''Nina Allan's Time Pieces'' appears in ''Interzone''. ==Short stories== Nina Allan's stories have appeared in various publications and six "Best of" collections: #Allan's story ''The Lammas Worm'' appeared in ''Strange Tales 3'' edited by Rosalie Parker of Tartarus Press in 2010. It was then selected by Ellen Datlow for The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two. The story was re-printed as part of ''Stardust:The Ruby Castle Stories''. #Her story ''Flying in the Face of God'' appeared in issue 227 of Interzone in 2010. It was then selected by Gardner Dozois to appear in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection. #The story ''The Silver Wind'' originally appeared in issue 233 of Interzone in 2011. It was reprinted in ''The Silver Wind'' and ''The Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction 2012'' edited by Rich Horton Prime Books. It was also short-listed for BSFA Awards for (short fiction) 2012. # Her story ''Wilkolak'' appeared in issue 11 of ''Crimewave'' edited by Andy Cox in 2011. It was selected by Maxim Jakubowski for The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10. Constable & Robinson 2013. #''Sunshine'' appeared in issue 29 of Black Static edited by Andy Cox in 2012. It was selected by Rich Horton for ''The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2013'' Prime Books. #Her story ''The Tiger'' appeared in ''Terror Tales of London'' edited by Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press) in 2013. It was then selected by Ellen Datlow for The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six. She has said that all her short fiction to date has been, "a kind of apprenticeship in novel-writing". Her first novel is ''The Race'', which uses the town of Hastings for its landscape, where she was living for most of the time she was writing it.〔As note 1〕 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「Nina Allan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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