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Andrew Motion

アンドリュー・モーション

Andoryū Mōshon

別名: Sir Andrew Motion / Andrew R. M. Motion

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1952-10-26 （London, England）
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
Kimpton, Hertfordshire → Hatfield Heath, Essex → Stisted, Essex → London (part-time) → Baltimore, Maryland, USA (part-time)

経歴

職業
Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Academic, Editor
活動期間
1976年〜
所属
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow), The Poetry Archive (founder/initiator), Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars (faculty, Homewood Professor of the Arts), Campaign to Protect Rural England (President), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (Chair), Friends of the British Library (vice-president), English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel (member)
所属団体
Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel
影響を受けた人物
Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Wordsworth, John Keats, Edward Thomas

学歴

Radley College
国: United Kingdom
Secondary/boarding school
University College, Oxford
Faculty of Humanities (English) / English
学位: BA (first-class honours)
期間: 1971–1975
卒業年: 1975
国: United Kingdom
Winner of the Newdigate Prize
University of Oxford (MLitt)
Faculty of Humanities (English) / English literature (study of Edward Thomas)
学位: MLitt
期間: 1975–1976
卒業年: 1976
国: United Kingdom
MLitt on the poetry of Edward Thomas

受賞歴

Newdigate Prize
1975
主催: University of Oxford
結果: winner
Eric Gregory Award
1976
主催: Eric Gregory Award
結果: winner
Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition
1981
対象作品: The Letter
主催: Arvon Foundation
結果: winner
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
1984
対象作品: Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984
主催: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
結果: winner
Somerset Maugham Award
1987
対象作品: The Lamberts
主催: Somerset Maugham Award
結果: winner
Dylan Thomas Prize
1987
対象作品: Natural Causes
主催: Dylan Thomas Prize
結果: winner
Whitbread Prize for Biography
1994
対象作品: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
部門: Biography
主催: Whitbread/Costa
結果: winner
Poet Laureate (appointed)
1999
主催: United Kingdom (Royal appointment)
結果: appointed (1999–2009)
Knight Bachelor
2009
主催: The Crown (United Kingdom)
結果: honoured
Wilfred Owen Poetry Award
2014
主催: Wilfred Owen Prize
結果: winner
Ted Hughes Award
2015
対象作品: Coming Home (radio programme)
主催: Ted Hughes Award
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Pleasure Steamers

1978年 Poetry collection

Early collection showing youthful perspective and an emerging interest in landscape.

natureyouthnostalgia

Natural Causes

1987年 Poetry collection

A mature collection dealing with personal memory, loss and family history.

memorylossfamily

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

1993年 Biography

An authoritative biography of Philip Larkin that significantly revised Larkin's reputation; winner of the Whitbread Prize.

biographyliterary studyliterary history

Public Property

2002年 Poetry collection

Collection addressing contemporary social issues and the public sphere, reflecting aspects of his laureateship.

public lifesocial issuespolitical verse

Coming Home

2015年 Poetry / Radio programme

A poetic radio piece based on recordings of British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan; winner of the Ted Hughes Award.

warreturnmemory
映像化・舞台化
  • [Radio] Coming Home (radio programme) (2015)

Silver

2012年 Novel (sequel)

A sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, set a generation on from the original adventure.

adventurelegacymorality

全著作

  • The Pleasure Steamers (1978)
  • Independence (1981)
  • Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 (1984)
  • Natural Causes (1987)
  • Love in a Life (1991)
  • Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (1993)
  • Salt Water (1997)
  • Selected Poems 1976–1997 (1998)
  • Public Property (2002)
  • Silver (2012)
  • Coming Home (2015)
  • Essex Clay (2018)

翻案

  • Coming Home (radio programme)
  • Incoming (play, premiered 2011)

作風・主題

文体
lyrical with narrative elementsclear, unadorned languagea postmodern-romantic sensibility
頻出モチーフ
countryside and landscapememory and family historywar and returntime and loss

評価・遺産

Andrew Motion is a leading contemporary British poet who served as Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, promoting public-facing poetry. He founded the Poetry Archive and, through his authoritative biography of Philip Larkin and other work, has had a lasting influence on poetry preservation and scholarship.

記念館・博物館

  • Papers of Andrew Motion (British Library) British Library, London

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature

資料所蔵先

  • British Library (Papers of Andrew Motion)

大衆文化への影響

  • TV appearance: Jamie's Dream School (2011) as poetry teacher
  • Theatre participation: contributed to Bush Theatre's Sixty-Six Books project

引用

  • My wish to write a poem is inseparable from my wish to explain something to myself.
    出典: Andrew Motion (essay / interview) (2009年)

豆知識

  • He broke with the tradition of a lifetime Poet Laureate, stipulating a ten-year term.
  • Instrumental in founding the Poetry Archive to preserve recordings of poets reading their work.
  • Knighted in 2009 (Knight Bachelor).
  • Won the Ted Hughes Award in 2015 for Coming Home.
  • Maintains part-time residence in Baltimore, USA.