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Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) is a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California.〔 Her novels (''Brown Girl in the Ring'', ''Midnight Robber'', ''The Salt Roads'', ''The New Moon's Arms'') and short stories such as those in her collection ''Skin Folk'' often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies (''Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction'' and ''Mojo: Conjure Stories''). She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology ''So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future'', and with Geoff Ryman for ''Tesseracts 9''. Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel ''Whylah Falls'' on the CBC's ''Canada Reads 2002''. She was the curator of ''Six Impossible Things'', an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One. ==Early life and education== Nalo Hopkinson was born December 20, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica to Freda and Muhammed Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. She grew up in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada.〔Hopkinson, Nalo. The Salt Roads. Warner Books. New York. 2003. ISBN 978-0446533027.〕 She was raised in a literary environment; her mother was a library technician and her father a Guyanese poet, playwright and actor who also taught English and Latin.〔http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/21/entertainment/la-ca-jc-nalo-hopkinson-20130324〕 By virtue of this upbringing, Hopkinson had access to writers like Derek Walcott during her formative years, and could read Kurt Vonnegut’s works by age six.〔 Hopkinson’s writing is influenced by the fairy and folk tales she read at a young age, which included Afro-Caribbean stories like Anansi, as well as Western works like ''Gulliver’s Travels'', the ''Iliad'', the ''Odyssey'';〔http://www.sfsite.com/03b/nh77.htm〕 she was also known to have read the works of Shakespeare around the time she was reading Homer.〔http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=5114〕 Though she lived in Connecticut briefly during her father’s tenure at Yale University, Hopkinson has said that the culture shock from her move to Toronto from Guyana at age sixteen was something “to which () still not fully reconciled”.〔 She lived in Toronto from 1977 to 2011 before moving to Riverside, California. Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she studied with her mentor and instructor, science fiction writer James Morrow. She has learning disabilities. 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「Nalo Hopkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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