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Suhayl Saadi (born 1961, Beverley, Yorkshire) is a physician, author and dramatist based in Glasgow, Scotland. His varied literary output includes novels, short stories, anthologies of fiction, song lyrics, plays for stage and radio theatre, and wisdom pieces for ''The Dawn Patrol,'' the Sarah Kennedy show on BBC Radio 2. ==Works== Saadi's 2004 novel, ''Psychoraag,'' which won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and nominated for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the National Literary Award (the Patras Bokhari Prize) in Pakistan. The Scottish Book Trust designated ''Psychoraag'' one of the 100 Best Scottish Books of all time. The French translation was released in November 2007 by the Paris-based publisher Éditions Métailié. Suhayl Saadi has written about subjects as diverse as psychedelic music, Sufism, the British pantomime, the future of creativity, and the relationship of literature to global politics, for many periodicals, including ''The Independent,'' ''The Times,'' ''The Herald,'' ''The Sunday Herald,'' ''The Scotsman,'' and ''Spike Magazine,'' and for the British Council. His short story collection, ''The Burning Mirror,'' was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Prize in 2001. Saadi has written stage and radio plays including ''The Dark Island'', ''The White Cliffs'' and ''Saame Sita.''〔〔 He has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies including ''Shorts: The Macallan Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection;'' ''A Fictional Guide to Scotland;'' and ''Freedom Spring: Ten Years On,'' a compilation of new writing from South Africa and Scotland. He has appeared widely on television, radio and in public literary readings and is currently working on another novel. Suhayl Saadi has also written song lyrics for classical and folk-rock musical ensembles, including the Edinburgh-based Dunedin Consort,〔(Dunedin Consort )〕 and for the Africa-centred World AIDS Day Project Paradisum.〔 His work has appeared in translation in anthologies, as in 2006 in German in ''Cool Britannia'' (Al Kennedy, ed. Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach). Among more recent works, Saadi wrote the libretto for ''Queens of Govan'', one of five short operas commissioned in 2007 by the Scottish Opera for its 2008 "Five:15" project. Saadi is a board member and co-director of the arts production company Heer Productions Limited, which established the Pakistani Film, Media and Arts Festival〔(Pakistani Film, Media, and Arts Festival )〕 in the United Kingdom in 2005. During the month of October 2008, Saadi was the British Council Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.〔 ((GWU Press release ))〕 A novel, ''Joseph's Box'', inspired by the Biblical/Quranic account of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, was published by Two Ravens Press in August 2009 and has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011. The novel is set in Scotland, England, Sicily and Pakistan. 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「Suhayl Saadi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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