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Stephen Amidon
Stephen Amidon (born 1959, in Chicago)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stephenamidon.com/about.html )〕 is an American author.
He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America, including a spell in Columbia, Maryland, which served as the inspiration for his fourth novel ''The New City.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stephenamidon.com/the-new-city-interviews.html )〕 Amidon attended Wake Forest University as a Guy T. Carswell Scholar, majoring in philosophy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.magazine.wfu.edu/2011/12/healing-reads-includes-wake-forest-author-amidon/ )〕 He moved to London, UK, in 1987, where he was given his first job as a critic by Auberon Waugh, who invited him to review a novel for The Literary Review. In 1999 he returned to the US.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stephen Amidon's website )〕 His literary criticism and essays have appeared in many publications in North America and the UK 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stephenamidon.com/bibliography.html )〕and he has also worked as a film critic for the ''Financial Times'' and the ''Sunday Times''. In November, 2013, Amidon was on the jury of the 31st Torino Film Festival.〔http://www.torinofilmfest.org/?action=article&id=427〕 Amidon has written two non-fiction books: ''The Sublime Engine'' with his brother Tom, a cardiologist, and ''Something Like the Gods'' which is dedicated to his son, Alexander, a first-team, all-ACC wide receiver for the Boston College football team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/amidon_alex00.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All ACC Football Team )〕
Stephen Amidon sold his first work of fiction in 1989, when the short story "Echolocation" was chosen by Ian Hamilton for inclusion in the Bloomsbury anthology ''Soho Square II''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ianhamilton.org/writing/anthologies.html )〕 He was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain bursary for the short story in 1990. He is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, the most recent of which, ''Security'', was released by FSG in 2009. His fiction has been published in fifteen countries. The novel ''Human Capital'' was chosen by Jonathan Yardley of ''The Washington Post'' as one of the five best works of fiction of 2004. A film adaptation of the novel, Human Capital (''Il capitale umano'') directed by Paolo Virzì, won best film at the 2014 David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, and Globi D'Oro Awards,〔http://www.grr.rai.it/dl/grr/notizie/ContentItem-fb786c52-f69b-438d-a257-a2ece7e9f595.html〕 The film premiered in America at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival〔http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/tribeca-film-review-human-capital-1201157301/〕 and it was Italy's entry for best foreign language film at the 2015 Academy Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://variety.com/2014/film/news/italy-picks-paolo-virzis-human-capital-as-its-foreign-oscar-contender-1201312703/ )〕 In February 2015, Teatro Stabile di Torino premiered 6BIANCA, a serial drama, written by Stephen Amidon and directed by Serena Sinigaglia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.teatrostabiletorino.it/6bianca-progetto-teatrale-stephen-amidon-serena-sinigaglia/ )〕
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