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Maureen Freely (born 1952) is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. ==Biography== Born in Neptune, New Jersey, Freely grew up in Turkey and now lives in England, where she lectures at the University of Warwick〔(Staff page ), University of Warwick〕 and is an occasional contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent'' newspapers. She is the current president of English PEN, the founding centre of PEN International. Among her novels is ''The Life of the Party'', set in Turkey. She has also written ''The Other Rebecca'', a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel ''Rebecca''. Freely is also an occasional contributor to Cornucopia; a magazine about Turkey. She is best known as the Turkish-into-English translator of Orhan Pamuk's recent novels. She works closely with Pamuk on these translations, because they often serve as the basis when his work is translated into other languages.〔 They were both educated simultaneously at Robert College in Istanbul, although they did not know each another at the time. Freely translated and wrote an introduction to Fethiye Çetin's memoir, ''My Grandmother''.〔Çetin, Fethiye. ''My Grandmother: A Memoir''. 2008〕 She is the daughter of author John Freely, and has a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely is the mother of four children and two step children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen Freely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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