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William Fiennes (author)
The Hon William Fiennes is a British author.
Fiennes was educated at the dragon School in Oxford,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Eminent Dragons )〕 Eton College, and Oxford University, where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Aged 19, after a year teaching in Brazil, he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease.〔(An Englishman's castle ), ''The Guardian'', 11 April 2009.〕
==Writing==
His first book, ''The Snow Geese'' (2002), is an account of following snow geese from Texas to their summer breeding grounds on Baffin Island, and a meditation on the idea of home.〔(Review ), ''The Guardian'', 30 March 2002.〕 It was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the 2003 Hawthornden Prize, the 2003 Somerset Maugham Award and the 2003 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His second book, ''The Music Room'' (2009), is the story of growing up in an English castle alongside a brother who suffers from severe epilepsy and brain damage. ''The Music Room'' has been called "''a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory''",〔(The Music Room by William Fiennes: Review ), ''Daily Telegraph''.〕 "sublimely evocative" and "a beautiful and fortifying book, even a great one."〔 "The Music Room" was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award.〔(IBW Award ), (Independent Booksellers Week ), UK.〕 William Fiennes has also written for ''Granta'', the ''London Review of Books'', ''The Observer, the ''Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Times Literary Supplement''.〔(Biography ), Pan Macmillan.〕
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