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Robert Macfarlane

ロバート・マクファーレン

Robāto Makufāren

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1976-08-15 （Halam, Nottinghamshire, England）
国籍
British
言語
English
居住地歴
Nottinghamshire → Cambridge

経歴

職業
Writer, Professor, Fellow
活動期間
2003年〜2024年
所属
Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
所属団体
Royal Society of Literature
影響を受けた人物
John Muir, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, Roger Deakin
影響を与えた人物
Contemporary nature writers
ノミネート
Boardman Tasker Prize shortlist (Mountains of the Mind), John Llewelyn Rhys Prize shortlist (Mountains of the Mind), Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist (The Old Ways), Jan Michalski Prize shortlist (The Old Ways)

学歴

Nottingham High School
国: England
Pembroke College, Cambridge
国: United Kingdom
Magdalen College, Oxford
国: United Kingdom
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
PhD
学位: PhD
期間: 2000-
国: United Kingdom
Began PhD in 2000, elected Fellow in 2001

受賞歴

Guardian First Book Award
2003
対象作品: Mountains of the Mind
主催: The Guardian
結果: winner
Somerset Maugham Award
2004
対象作品: Mountains of the Mind
主催: Society of Authors
結果: winner
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
2004
対象作品: Mountains of the Mind
主催: Sunday Times
結果: winner
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
2007
対象作品: The Wild Places
結果: winner
Grand Prize Banff Mountain Festival
2008
対象作品: The Wild Places
主催: Banff Centre
結果: winner
Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
2008
対象作品: The Wild Places
主催: Scottish Arts Council
結果: winner
Philip Leverhulme Prize
2011
部門: 現代ヨーロッパ言語・文学
主催: Leverhulme Trust
結果: winner
E. M. Forster Award
2017
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: winner
Wainwright Prize
2019
対象作品: Underland
結果: winner
NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis
2019
対象作品: Underland
主催: NDR
結果: winner
Weston International Award
2023
主催: Writers' Trust of Canada
結果: winner
Blue Metropolis Planet Earth Literature Prize
2024
主催: Blue Metropolis
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Mountains of the Mind

2003年 Nature writing

An account of the development of Western attitudes to mountains and precipitous landscapes, examining why people are drawn to mountains.

mountainsimaginationnature

The Wild Places

2007年 Nature writing

Describes journeys in search of wildness in Britain and Ireland.

wildnesslandscapetravel
映像化・舞台化
  • [Television] Natural World (2010)

The Old Ways

2012年 Travel literature

Follows old ways in various places, guided by Edward Thomas.

pathslandscapepeople and place

Landmarks

2015年 Nature writing

Celebrates language of landscape with glossary of terms.

languagenatureplace

The Lost Words

2017年 Children's book

Spell book responding to nature words dropped from children's dictionary.

nature wordsenvironmentchildren

Underland

2019年 Nature writing

Explores underworlds and subterranean journeys.

underworlddeep timeearth

全著作

  • Mountains of the Mind
  • Original Copy
  • The Wild Places
  • The Old Ways
  • Holloway
  • Landmarks
  • The Gifts of Reading
  • The Lost Words
  • Ness
  • The Lost Spells
  • Is a River Alive?

翻案

  • Mountain (script)
  • River (script)
  • Upstream

作風・主題

文体
poetic prosedetailed observationdialect vocabulary
頻出モチーフ
landscapeplacenature and languagewalking

評価・遺産

Influential British nature writer known for works on landscape, nature, place, and language.

関連学会

  • Royal Society of Literature

大衆文化への影響

  • Nobel Prize contender (2022,2024)
  • The Lost Words as cultural phenomenon

豆知識

  • Married to Julia Lovell, professor of Chinese literature
  • Father John Macfarlane co-authored CURB-65
  • Grandfather Edward Peck, diplomat and mountaineer
  • Three children: Lily, Thomas, William Macfarlane