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Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. ''Love Begins in Winter'' won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. ==Fiction== Simon Van Booy has written two collections of short stories, ''The Secret Lives of People in Love'' (2011 Finalist Award for The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature)〔http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/prize-finalists/2011/index.html〕 and ''Love Begins in Winter'', which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the world's richest short story prize. The New York Times said that "Incurable romantics will savor Simon Van Booy's tender, Maupassant-like fables...." While the Los Angeles Times said of Van Booy's, ''The Secret Lives of People in Love''" (), "One worries, after reading a debut short-story collection this breathtaking, what Simon Van Booy could possibly do for an encore. Write something longer?" Van Booy's first novel, ''Everything Beautiful Began After'', was released in the US and UK in July 2011. ''Everything Beautiful Began After'' was nominated for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winners of the 2012 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Announced | American Booksellers Association )〕 His second novel, ''The Illusion of Separateness'' was released in the US in June 2013 and in the UK in July 2013. ''Publishers Weekly'' gave ''The Illusion of Separateness'' a starred review, and said 'the writing is what makes this remarkable book soar.' File:Illusion_of_Separateness_Bookcover.jpg|Illusion of Separateness File:Everything_Beautiful_Began_After.jpg|Everything Beautiful Began After File:Lovebeginsinwinter.jpg| ''Love Begins in Winter''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=images/bookcover2 )〕 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「Simon Van Booy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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