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|signature =Signature Orson Scott Card.svg |signature_size =110px |website = |nationality = American}} Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Orson Scott Card )〕 is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel ''Ender's Game'' (1985) and its sequel ''Speaker for the Dead'' (1986) both won Hugo〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1986 Award Winners & Nominees )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1987 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 and Nebula Awards,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1986 Award Winners & Nominees )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1985 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of ''Ender's Game'', which Card co-produced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in North America.〔(Ender's Game (2013) - Release dates )〕 Card is a professor of English at Southern Virginia University,〔("Why I Am Teaching at SVU... and Why SVU is Important" ) from LDSMag.com〕 has written two books on the subject of creative writing, hosts writing bootcamps and workshops, and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Writers of the Future contest. )〕 A great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, Card is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In addition to producing a large body of fiction works, he has also offered political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing. ==Early life== Card is the son of Peggy Jane (née Park) and Willard Richards Card, the third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who Is Orson Scott Card? )〕〔 〕 Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) and the University of Utah; he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. For part of the 1970s Card worked as an associate editor of the ''Ensign'', an official magazine of the LDS Church.〔(Ensign reference to Card as Associate Editor )〕 Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina,〔 a place that has played a significant role in ''Ender's Game'' and many of his other works. 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「Orson Scott Card」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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