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性別

女性

生誕

1934-08-16 （London, England）

死没

2011-03-26 （Bristol, England） 76歳

国籍

British

言語

English

居住地歴

London → Pontarddulais, Wales → Lake District → York → Thaxted, Essex → Oxford → Bristol

経歴

職業

Novelist, Poet, Academic, Literary critic, Short story writer

活動期間

1968年〜2011年

影響を受けた人物

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien

影響を与えた人物

Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Penelope Lively, Robin McKinley, Dina Rabinovitch, Megan Whalen Turner, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman

ノミネート

Hugo Award (finalist / nominee), Locus Award (multiple nominations), Mythopoeic Award (multiple nominations), British Fantasy Award (nominations), World Fantasy Award (nominations)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

作風・主題

文体

Meticulously plotted with humour and satireLayered storytelling aimed at both children and adults

頻出モチーフ

systems of magicparallel worlds / multiversestwists of time and memoryfamily and identity

健康

• Lung cancer
  2009–2011
  Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009; underwent surgery in 2009, discontinued chemotherapy in 2010, and died from the disease in 2011. The illness affected her ability to continue writing.

評価・遺産

One of Britain's leading children's fantasy authors whose work influenced many later writers (Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, etc.). She gained wider recognition through awards and adaptations, notably the film adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle.

引用

• "He spread his arms and language rolled from him, sonorous, magnificent, and rhythmic.. for years after that, I used to dream regularly that a piece of my bedroom wall slid aside revealing my grandfather declaiming in Welsh, and I knew he was declaiming about my sins. At the bottom of my mind there is always a flow of spoken language that is not English, rolling in majestic paragraphs and resounding with splendid polysyllables. I listen to it like music when I write."

  出典: Reflections on the magic of writing (autobiography) (2012年)

• "Quite simply the best writer for children of her generation."

  出典: Neil Gaiman (author)

豆知識

• Married literary scholar John Burrow in 1956 and had three sons.
• Evacuated to Wales during WWII; her grandfather was a chapel minister.
• 'Howl's Moving Castle' was adapted into an internationally known animated film by Hayao Miyazaki in 2004.
• Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009 and died in 2011.
• Her sister Ursula Jones completed a final unfinished book, published posthumously.
• Commemorated by a Google Doodle in 2014.