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Andrew Annandale Sinclair

アンドリュー・アナンデール・シンクレア

Andoryū Ananderu Shinkureā

別名: Andrew Sinclair

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1935-01-21 (Oxford)
死没
2019-05-30 84歳
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
Oxford, England → Cambridge, England → London, England

経歴

職業
Novelist, Historian, Biographer, Critic, Filmmaker, Film Producer, Publisher
活動期間
1958年〜2019年
所属
Coldstream Guards, Timon Films, Lorrimer Publishing, Churchill College, Cambridge, University College London
所属団体
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

学歴

Eton College
国: United Kingdom
Public school
Trinity College, Cambridge
History
学位: BA, PhD
国: United Kingdom
Studied history
Harvard University
学位: Harkness Fellow
期間: 1959-1961
国: United States
Harkness Fellow

受賞歴

Somerset Maugham Prize
1967
対象作品: The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman
主催: Society of Authors
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Breaking of Bumbo

1959年 Novel

A novel based on his National Service experience with the Coldstream Guards.

Military lifeSocial satire
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] The Breaking of Bumbo / Andrew Sinclair (1970)

Gog

1967年 Novel

Satirical novel.

Social criticism

The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman

1965年 Non-fiction

History of the emancipation of the American woman.

Women's historyAmerican history

全著作

  • Prohibition: The Era of Excess (1962)
  • The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman (1965)
  • A Concise History of the United States (1967)
  • Viva Che! (1968)
  • The Breaking of Bumbo (1959)
  • My Friend Judas (1959)

翻案

  • Under Milk Wood (1972, director)
  • Blue Blood (1973, director)

作家による翻訳

  • Selections from the Greek Anthology (1967)

作風・主題

文体
Extraordinary fluency and copiousnessProlific in fiction and American social history
頻出モチーフ
American historyBiographySocial satire

評価・遺産

British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, and filmmaker described as a writer of extraordinary fluency and copiousness in fiction and American social history.

引用

  • From the beginning Andrew Sinclair established himself as a writer of extraordinary fluency and copiousness, whether in fiction or in American social history.
    出典: Bernard Bergonzi (1982年)

豆知識

  • At age 22, became suddenly famous like Byron.
  • Instrumental in saving historic buildings in Narrow Street, Limehouse.