常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

canonical writers

ノーベル文学賞を受賞したコロンビア人作家 ガブリエル・ガルシア・マルケス氏がメキシコ市の自宅で死去しました(「百年の孤独」は面白かった!)。

さて死去の知らせを伝えたNYTですが、ここのa select roster of canonical writersとはどのような意味なのでしょうか。Koyamamotoくん、canonicalに注意して解説をしてください。(UG)

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Gabriel García Márquez Dies at 87

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87.

His death was confirmed by Cristóbal Pera, his former editor at Random House.
Mr. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted

in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?emc=edit_na_20140417