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Tim Willocks is a British physician and novelist (Born 27 October 1957) in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England. Willocks studied medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School and has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of sufferers of drug addiction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Land of Pope and glory )〕 Willocks holds a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. ==Career== His 1991 novel ''Bad City Blues'' was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring Dennis Hopper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bad city blues at IMDB )〕 Willocks also wrote the Steven Spielberg documentary ''The Unfinished Journey''. Willocks wrote the screenplay for the film ''Swept from the Sea (1997)'' based on the 1903 novel ''Amy Foster'' by Joseph Conrad. One of Willocks' most recent novels, called ''The Religion'', is set in 1565 during the Grand Siege of Malta and centres around the adventures of Mattias Tannhauser, a Saxon, who, after his family is killed, is trained and becomes a janissary in the army of the Ottoman Empire. After years of service he is repulsed by the ferocious life he lives and he becomes an arms and opium merchant. He is forced to return from retirement to help the Order of the Hospitaliers against the army of Suleiman the Magnificent and to help one young Maltese countess find her long lost son.〔 In 2012 he received the SUGARPRIZE for a body of work during the Sugarpulp Festival. 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「Tim Willocks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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