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第71回（1989年） Winner
James Kelman
ジェームズ・ケルマン
Jēmuzu Keruman
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1946-06-09 （Glasgow, Scotland）
- 国籍
- Scottish
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Glasgow → London → Manchester → Channel Islands → Australia → America
経歴
- 職業
- novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist
- 活動期間
- 1973年〜2024年
- 影響を受けた人物
- Émile Zola, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Knut Hamsun, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, James Joyce
- 影響を与えた人物
- Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Janice Galloway, Douglas Stuart
- ノミネート
- 1989 Booker Prize shortlist (A Disaffection)
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Cheltenham Prize for Literature | Greyhound for Breakfast | — | — | winner |
| 1989 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | A Disaffection | Fiction | — | winner |
| 1994 | Booker Prize | How Late It Was, How Late | — | Booker Prize Foundation | winner |
| 1994 | Writers’ Guild Award | How Late It Was, How Late | Best Fiction | — | winner |
| 1998 | Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award | — | — | — | winner |
| 1998 | Stakis Prize | The Good Times | Scottish Writer of the Year | — | winner |
| 2009 | Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year | Kieron Smith, Boy | — | — | winner |
| 2009 | Aye Write Prize | Kieron Smith, Boy | — | — | winner |
| 2009 | Saltire Award | Kieron Smith, Boy | — | Saltire Society | winner |
| 2024 | Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award | — | — | Saltire Society | winner |
Cheltenham Prize for Literature
1987
対象作品:
Greyhound for Breakfast
結果:
winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1989
対象作品:
A Disaffection
部門:
Fiction
結果:
winner
Booker Prize
1994
対象作品:
How Late It Was, How Late
主催:
Booker Prize Foundation
結果:
winner
Writers’ Guild Award
1994
対象作品:
How Late It Was, How Late
部門:
Best Fiction
結果:
winner
Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award
1998
結果:
winner
Stakis Prize
1998
対象作品:
The Good Times
部門:
Scottish Writer of the Year
結果:
winner
Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year
2009
対象作品:
Kieron Smith, Boy
結果:
winner
Aye Write Prize
2009
対象作品:
Kieron Smith, Boy
結果:
winner
Saltire Award
2009
対象作品:
Kieron Smith, Boy
主催:
Saltire Society
結果:
winner
Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award
2024
主催:
Saltire Society
結果:
winner
受賞・候補エディション
Booker Prize
1回登壇
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第26回（1994年） Winner
作品
代表作
How Late It Was, How Late
1994年 Stream of consciousnessA blind man navigates life in Glasgow after a fight, through stream of consciousness.
working-class strugglesresistance to authorityparanoia
A Disaffection
1989年 Stream of consciousnessExplores dissatisfaction and social struggles of a working-class narrator.
social alienationboredom of daily life
Kieron Smith, Boy
2008年 Autobiographical novelComing-of-age story of a boy in working-class Glasgow.
childhoodclass consciousness
The Busconductor Hines
1984年 Satirical novelLife and fantasies of a bus conductor.
mundane jobimagination
全著作
- An Old Pub Near The Angel
- Not Not While The Giro
- Lean Tales
- Greyhound for Breakfast
- The Burn
- The Good Times
- If It Is Your Life
- The Busconductor Hines
- A Chancer
- A Disaffection
- How Late It Was, How Late
- Translated Accounts
- You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
- Kieron Smith, Boy
- Mo Said She Was Quirky
- Dirt Road
- God's Teeth and Other Phenomena
翻案
- Film adaptation of Greyhound for Breakfast (2012)
作品の翻訳
- Dirt Road French translation: La route de Lafayette
作風・主題
- 文体
- stream of consciousnessGlaswegian dialectminimalismfirst-person internal monologue
- 頻出モチーフ
- working-class inner livesstruggles with authoritysocial interactionsparanoiaboredom of survival
評価・遺産
Key figure in Scottish literature, championing working-class voices and dialect, Booker Prize winner, honoured with Saltire Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024. Archive held at National Library of Scotland.
資料所蔵先
- National Library of Scotland
大衆文化への影響
- Influenced Douglas Stuart, who credited him for representing Scottish dialect.
引用
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My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
出典: Booker Prize acceptance speech (1994年)
豆知識
- Left school at age 15.
- Married Marie Connors in 1969.
- Born and raised in Govan and Drumchapel, Glasgow.
- Involved in Workers' City activism.
- Supports Scottish independence.