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Nury Vittachi (born 2 October 1958 in Ceylon) is a journalist and author based in Hong Kong. His columns are published daily, weekly in a variety of newspapers in Asia as well as on his website. He wrote the comedy-crime novel series ''The Feng Shui Detective'', published in many languages around the world, as well as non-fiction works and novels for children. He is also noted for his role in founding the ''Asia Literary Review'', the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and was the chairman of the judges of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008. Vittachi currently lives in Hong Kong with his English wife Mary-Lacey Vittachi and their three adopted Chinese children. His father is the Sri Lankan journalist Tarzie Vittachi; his uncle, the late Dr V.P. Vittachi, was a major shareholder of the biggest conglomerate in Sri Lanka, the Stassen Group. In 2015 Vittachi began contributing to the ''Hong Kong Free Press''. ==Journalism career== Vittachi started his journalism career on ''Morning Telegraph'' in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" (see red envelope) and "Spice Trader" for the ''South China Morning Post'' until 1997. Although remembered mainly for humor and affectionate take on cross-cultural clashes, the column was often hardhitting, and regularly received writs. His abrupt removal at the time of the 1997 change of sovereignty was widely seen as an act of political censorship. Collected editions of the columns under titles such as ''Only in Hong Kong'' went through numerous print runs. At the ''Far Eastern Economic Review'', Vittachi ran a similar region-wide column called "Travellers' Tales". From the mid-1980s, Vittachi's stock-in-trade included absurd-but-true stories, funny signs, ludicrous menu items, curious business or personal names, instructions for idiots, dumb criminal tales and so on. As Internet usage grew from the mid-1990s, many of these became standard themes of web humor, and currently run on his blog ''www.misterjam.com''. His ear for Asian English resulted in his being commissioned to write scholarly articles in the subject for academic journals. In April 2003, when widespread fears about the SARS virus were reported in the media around the world, Vittachi wrote a series of articles scornful of the fear-mongering and argued that the virus would kill fewer people than the common cold. These articles were widely distributed via email. After his prediction was proved accurate, he received an award in 2004 from the Pacific Asia Travel Association as travel journalist of the year. This was a rare example of an email winning an award originally intended for mainstream paper-based publications. Vittachi contributes a column to the Asian edition or Reader's Digest called ''Unbelievable!'', in which he relates amusing anecdotes about Asian life. 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「Nury Vittachi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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