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Sia Figiel (born 1967 Apia, Samoa) is a contemporary Samoan novelist, poet, and painter.〔http://www.pontas-agency.com/Autors/ENG/Author_Sia_Figiel_6533.asp〕 Sia Figiel grew up amidst traditional Samoan singing and poetry, which heavily influenced her writing. Figiel's greatest influence and inspiration in her career is the Samoan novelist and poet, Albert Wendt.〔('Sia Figiel' ) "Samoan Bios" Retrieved on April 19, 2015.〕 Her formal schooling was conducted in Samoa and New Zealand where she also began a Bachelor of Arts, which was later completed at Whitworth College (United States). She has travelled in Europe and completed writers' residencies at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, and the University of Technology, Sydney. Unfortunately, Sia Figel lost both parents to complications with diabetes. She too was diagnosed with diabetes 13 years ago.〔Figiel, Sia. ("Diabetes Took My Teeth but Not My Life" ), ''CNN'', 21 February 2014. Retrieved on 03 April 2015.〕 Sia Figiel's poetry won the Polynesian Literary Competition in 1994 and ''Where We Once Belonged'' was awarded the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for fiction, South East Asia/South Pacific region.〔http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/figiel.html〕 Her works have been translated into French, German, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Portuguese. == Career highlights == In 2000 Figiel performed her Oceanic poetry at the University of Hawaii's twenty-fifth annual Pacific Island Studies conference.〔Hereniko, Vilsoni. ("Back to the Future: Decolonizing Pacific Studies" ), ''The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 15, No. 1'', Spring 2013. Retrieved on 6 April 2015.〕 The performances of Figiel and Teresia Teaiwa were recorded at this conference and subsequently released in a joint production with Hawai'i Dub Machine records and 'Elepaio Press. The album is titled Terenesia.〔Figiel, Sia. ("At 4:30 in the Morning" ), ''Woman Studies Quarterly: Woman Then and Now Vol. 30, No. 3/4'', Fall-Winter 2002. Retrieved on 6 April 2015.〕 Sia Figiel has also been a contributor to The Contemporary Pacific journal on multiple occasions, including publications in 1998 and 2010.〔Figiel, Sia. ("The Contemporary Pacific" ), ''The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 10, No. 2'', Fall 1998. Retrieved on 6 April 2015.〕〔Figiel, Sia. ("The Contemporary Pacific" ), ''The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 22, No. 1'' 1998. Retrieved on 6 April 2015.〕 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「Sia Figiel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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