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Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 24 March 1921) is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English.〔(Wilson Harris ) British Council on Literature.〕 == Biography == Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in what was then called British Guiana. After studying at Queen's College in the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, he became a government surveyor, before taking up a career as lecturer and writer. The knowledge of the savannas and rain forests he gained during his time as a surveyor formed the setting for many of his books, with the Guyanese landscape dominating his fiction. Between 1945 and 1961, Harris was a regular contributor of stories, poems and essays to ''Kyk-over-Al'' literary magazine and was part of a group of Guyanese intellectuals that included Martin Carter and Ivan Van Sertima. Harris came to England in 1959 and published his first novel ''Palace of the Peacock'' in 1960. This became the first of a quartet of novels, ''The Guyana Quartet'', which includes ''The Far Journey of Oudin'' (1961), ''The Whole Armour'' (1962), and ''The Secret Ladder'' (1963). He subsequently wrote the ''Carnival'' trilogy: ''Carnival'' (1985), ''The Infinite Rehearsal'' (1987), and ''The Four Banks of the River of Space'' (1990). His most recent novels include ''Jonestown'' (1996), which tells of the mass-suicide of followers of cult leader Jim Jones, ''The Dark Jester'' (2001), his latest semi-autobiographical novel, ''The Mask of the Beggar'' (2003), and ''The Ghost of Memory'' (2006). Harris also writes non-fiction and critical essays and has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, including the University of the West Indies (1984) and the University of Liège (2001). He has twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature. Harris was knighted in June 2010 during the Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours.〔("Wilson Harris Knighted" ), ''Stabroek News'', 14 June 2010.〕 In 2014, Sir Wilson Harris won a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.〔(Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. )〕 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「Wilson Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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