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Stephan Collishaw is an author from Nottinghamshire. Collishaw was born at Nottingham City Hospital.〔"(Stephan Collishaw interview )", BBC.co.uk, June 2004.〕 He wrote his first novel at the age of 16, an unpublished work he subsequently described as "unremittingly awful".〔 He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he wrote several other substantial unpublished works, and based on an interest in history and literature, decided to become a teacher in 1991.〔 On a whim, he relocated to Vilnius in 1995, where he met and married a Lithuanian woman〔 named Marija, who had been teaching him Lithuanian.〔Ochser, Tim. "(Keeping a wry eye on Lithuania )", The Baltic Times, October 27, 2004.〕 Marija already had two daughters from a prior relationship.〔 The family lived in Palma de Mallorca for two years, where Marija gave birth to Collishaw's son Lukas,〔 and then the family relocated to Nottinghamshire in 2001.〔 By this time, he had written a total of three unpublished novels, and at his wife's urging, began taking his writing more seriously and took an MA in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.〔 His first professional novel, ''The Last Girl'', about an elderly and impoverished poet in Vilnius, was completed in 2001〔 and published in 2003. In a favourable review for The Guardian, Julie Myerson described it as "astoundingly complex for a first novel", and also commented favourably on the reserved and un-flashy tone of Collishaw's prose.〔Myerson, Julie. "(Pictures of Vilnius )", The Guardian, March 22, 2003.〕 He followed with a second novel, ''Amber'', in 2004. Also set in Vilnius, it was inspired in part by (and contained numerous references to) Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine, which had been a favorite of Collishaw's as a young man.〔 Stephan also edited ''Any Place But Home'' which contains personal histories of seven Lithuanians who settled in England's East Midlands in the 1940s.〔Collshaw (2003) ''Any Place But Home'', Nottingham: NottinghamShire Lithuanian Society〕 His brother is Mat Collishaw the artist. ==External links== *(Review of ''The Last Girl'' ) in j. *(Review of ''Amber'' ) in The Independent *(Review of "The Last Girl" ) in Lituanus 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「Stephan Collishaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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