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Oonya Kempadoo (born 1966) is a novelist who was born in the UK of Guyanese parentage, her father being the writer Peter Kempadoo.〔Petamber Persaud, ("Peter Kempadoo - Preserving our literary heritage" ), ''Kyk-Over-Al'', 18 March 2006. (Source: Interview with Peter Kempadoo on Monday 13 March 2006, ''Guyana Chronicle'', Georgetown, Guyana.)〕 ==Biography== Born in Sussex, England, "of mixed Indian, African, Scottish, and Amerindian descent", Oonya Kempadoo was brought up in Guyana from the age of five.〔(Author biography, "Was Me Mudda" ) — Artists in Conversation, BOMB 86, Winter 2004.〕 She has studied art in Amsterdam, and has also lived in Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Tobago. She now lives in St. George's, Grenada.〔(Oonya Kempadoo biography ), Macmillan Publishers.〕 Her first novel, ''Buxton Spice'', a semi-autobiographical rural coming-of-age story,〔 was published 1998. ''The New York Times'' described it as "superb, and superbly written". Her second book, ''Tide Running'' (Picador, 2001), set in Plymouth, Tobago, is the story of young brothers Cliff and Ossie. ''Tide Running'' won the Casa de las Americas Literary Prize for best English or Creole novel.〔 Both of these books were nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards, the first in 2000 and the second in 2003. She was named a Great Talent for the Twenty-First Century by the Orange Prize judges and is a winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize.〔("The Casa de Las Americas Literary Prize", ''Guyana Chronicle'', 31 March 2012. )〕 Her third novel ''All Decent Animals'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) was recommended on Oprah's 2013 Summer Reading List by Karen Russell, who said: "How am I only now finding out about this writer? It's as if she's inventing her own language, which is incantatory, dense, and lush. The authority and blood pulse of it seduced me."〔Karen Russell on ("All Decent Animals" ), O's 2013 Summer Reading List.〕 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「Oonya Kempadoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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