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Sunjeev Sahota (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, ''Ours are the Streets'', was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, ''The Year of the Runaways'', has been shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. ==Background== Sahota was born in 1981〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sunjeev Sahota )〕 in Derby, and his family moved to Chesterfield when he was seven years old.〔 His paternal grandparents had emigrated to Britain from the Punjab in 1966. After finishing school, Sahota studied mathematics at Imperial College London. , he was working in marketing for the insurance company Aviva.〔 Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman Rushdie's ''Midnight's Children'' while visiting relatives in India before starting university.〔 He bought the book in the airport before flying to India. While he had studied English literature at GCSE level, the course did not require students to read a novel: We had to do a Shakespeare, and we did Macbeth. We had to do a pre 20th-century text, and we did a play, She Stoops to Conquer. We had to do poetry and we did Yevgeny Yevtushenko. But no novels. After ''Midnight's Children'', Sahota went on to read ''The God of Small Things'', ''A Suitable Boy'' and ''The Remains of the Day''. In an interview in January 2011, he stated: It was like I was making up for lost time – not that I had to catch up, but it was as though I couldn't quite believe this world of storytelling I had found and I wanted to get as much of it down me as I possibly could.〔 In 2013 he was included in a ''Granta'' list of 20 best young writers, released 20 years after the magazine first published such a list. 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「Sunjeev Sahota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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