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''Schindler's Ark'' (released in America as ''Schindler's List'') is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie ''Schindler's List'' directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called ''Schindler's List'' from the beginning; it was later re-issued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. The novel was also awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books» Winners By Award )〕 The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. It is a Historical fiction which describes actual people and places with fictional events, dialogue and scenes added by the author. Keneally wrote a number of well received novels before and after ''Schindler's Ark'', however it has since gone on to become his most well-known and celebrated work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Review: The Tyrant's Novel by Thomas Keneally )〕 ==Background== Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor, inspired Keneally to write ''Schindler's Ark''. After the war, Pfefferberg had tried on a number of occasions to interest the screen-writers and film-makers he met through his business in a film based on the story of Schindler and his actions in saving Polish Jews from the Nazis, arranging several interviews with Schindler for American television. Keneally's meetings with Pfefferberg, research and interviews of Schindler's acquittances are detailed in another of his books titled ''Searching for Schindler: A Memoir'' (2007). In October 1980 Keneally went into Pfefferberg's shop in Beverly Hills to ask about the price of briefcases. Keneally had just finished a book-signing in Beverly Hills and was on his way home to Australia. Pfefferberg, learning that Keneally was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Schindler, kept in two cabinets in his back room.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Schindler's Ark: genesis )〕 After 50 minutes of entreaties, Pfefferberg was finally able to convince Keneally to write the book; and Pfefferberg became an advisor, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and other sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ''Schindler's Ark'' to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." After the publication of ''Schindler's Ark'' in 1982, Pfefferberg worked to persuade Steven Spielberg to film Keneally's book, using his acquaintance with Spielberg's mother to gain access. A carbon copy of the original 13-page list, of which only a few exist, was discovered in 2009 in a library in Sydney, Australia. 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「Schindler's Ark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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