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Ronald Hugh Morrieson (29 January 1922 – 26 December 1972) was a novelist and short story writer in the New Zealand vernacular, who was little known in his home country until after his death. He earned his living as a musician and music teacher, and played in dance bands throughout south Taranaki. Morrieson lived in the Taranaki town of Hawera all his life and this town appears (under other names) in his novels. He was a heavy drinker throughout his life and this contributed to his early death. ==Novels== Morrieson wrote four novels: coming of age tale ''The Scarecrow'' (1963), ''Came A Hot Friday'' (1964), ''Predicament'' (published in 1975) and his only contemporary novel ''Pallet on the Floor'' (1976), which may have been unfinished upon his death. All have been adapted for the cinema. Two short stories were published posthumously, in 1974; ''Cross My Heart And Cut My Throat'' and ''The Chimney''. Morrieson's first two novels were published in Australia by Angus & Robertson and got good reviews there, but the company declined to publish his third novel, ''Predicament''. Like his last novel, ''Pallet on the Floor'' it was only published posthumously, by Dunmore Press in Palmerston North. They have all been republished by Penguin.〔"Ronald Hugh Morrieson" in ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' p380 (1998, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 0 19 5583485〕 In early 1972 Morrieson lamented to novelist Maurice Shadbolt , "I hope I'm not another one of these poor buggers who get discovered when they're dead",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Story: Morrieson, James Ronald Hugh : Page 1 – Biography )〕 only to die in obscurity in his small home town of Hawera. According to book ''New Zealand Film 1912 -1996'', Morrison's novels contain his "trademark preoccupations .... of sex, death, mateship, voyeurism, violence, booze and mayhem in bleak small town New Zealand - along with his irreverent black humour". Lawrence Jones said of Morrieson that it was "doubtful whether the anti-puritan underside of New Zealand small-town life ... has ever been so successfully caught". He classed Morrieson as one of the novelists of the "Provincial Period, 1935–1964", and one of the saddest, thanks to lack of recognition during his life, despite support from authors Maurice Shadbolt and C. K. Stead.〔''The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English'' p145 (1991, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 0-19-558211-X〕 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「Ronald Hugh Morrieson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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