略歴(Biography)
エマ・クライン(Emma Cline、1989年 - )は、アメリカの小説家。カリフォルニア州生まれ。短編小説を文芸誌『パリス・レビュー』や『ニューヨーカー』などに発表し、2016年に長編小説『ザ・ガールズ』(原題 The Girls)でデビュー。同作はシャーリイ・ジャクスン賞を受賞し、全米批評家協会賞ジョン・レナード賞やロサンゼルス・タイムズ文学賞の最終候補となった。『ザ・ガールズ』では、1960年代末のカリフォルニアを舞台に、孤独を抱える14歳の少女イーヴィーが、自由奔放な年上の少女スザンヌに惹かれ、カルト的な共同体へ入り込んでいく過程を描く。チャールズ・マンソン一派による事件を下敷きにしながら、教祖ではなく彼を取り巻く少女たちに焦点を当て、他者から認められたいという思春期の欲求が、憧れや集団への帰属を通して暴力へと近づいていく姿を描いている。
Emma Cline (born 1989) is an American novelist and short-story writer from California. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta. She made her debut as a novelist with "The Girls" in 2016, which won the Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Set in California in the late 1960s, "The Girls" follows fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd as her fascination with the older and seemingly liberated Suzanne draws her into a cult-like commune. Loosely inspired by the crimes associated with Charles Manson and his followers, the novel shifts attention away from the charismatic male leader and toward the young women around him, exploring how loneliness, desire for recognition, and the need to belong can draw an adolescent girl toward a group moving closer to violence.
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