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Robert Nye FRSL (born 15 March 1939) is an English poet who has also written novels and plays as well as stories for children. His bestselling novel ''Falstaff'', published in 1976, was described by Michael Ratcliffe (writing in ''The Times'') as "one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade", and went on to win both The Hawthornden Prize and Guardian Fiction Prize. The novel was also included in Anthony Burgess's ''99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939'' (1984). ==Early life== Robert Nye was born in London in 1939.〔"Nye, Robert (1939-), in Ray, Mohit K (ed.) (2007) ''The Atlantic Companion To Literature In English'', Atlantic, New Delhi, ISBN 978-81-269-0832-5, p. 402〕 His father was a civil servant, his mother a farmer's daughter. He attended Southend High School for Boys and had published his first poem, "Kingfisher", in the ''London Magazine'' (September 1955; Volume 2, Number 9) by the age of sixteen.〔 He left school in 1955 and did not pursue additional formal study. Nye's poetry has appeared in a number of important literary magazines, including ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Encounter'' and ''The Listener''. The 1964 Fall and Winter issues of the Canadian publication ''The Fiddlehead'' contained respectively fifteen and eighteen of his poems. He was a conscientious objector during National Service in the late 1950s, and was given exemption from military service conditional upon joining the Friends' Ambulance Unit and serving as a medical orderly at St Wulstan's Sanatorium, near Malvern, and then at Rochford General Hospital in Essex. Between 1955 and 1961, he worked at a variety of jobs: newspaper reporter, milkman, postman, labourer in a market garden, and orderly in a sanatorium.〔 Nye married his first wife, Judith Pratt, in 1959.〔 In 1961, they moved to a remote cottage in North Wales where Nye devoted himself full-time to writing.〔 There he developed an interest in Welsh and Celtic legends reflected later in his fiction for both adults and children.〔 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「Robert Nye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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