ハワード・ノーマン（Howard Norman、1949年–）は、アメリカの小説家、翻訳家。カナダ北部で先住民の口承物語を採録・翻訳した経験を持つ。長編デビュー作『ノーザン・ライツ』（The Northern Lights）は、友人を失った少年の成長をマニトバ州北部の自然と人びとの暮らしのなかに描く。『バード・アーティスト』（The Bird Artist）は、ニューファンドランドの村で鳥を描く青年による殺人の告白から始まる物語。両作とも全米図書賞の最終候補となった。小説以外にも、自身の経験を綴った回想録『I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place』（未邦訳）や、先住民の語りに取材した児童書『Trickster and the Fainting Birds』（未邦訳）がある。
Howard Norman (born 1949) is an American novelist and translator. His years in northern Canada, where he collected and translated Indigenous oral stories, have shaped much of his writing. His first novel, “The Northern Lights,” follows a boy growing up amid loss and change in northern Manitoba. “The Bird Artist” opens with a young bird painter’s confession to murder in a Newfoundland village. Both novels were finalists for the National Book Award. Norman has also drawn on his own life in the memoir “I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place.” His children’s book “Trickster and the Fainting Birds” retells stories gathered from Algonquian storytellers, extending his long engagement with oral traditions beyond his novels.
