A gripping new novel from one of our leading writers.
Carl Nixon is an award-winning short story writer, novelist and
playwright. He has twice won the Sunday Star Times Short Story
Competition, and won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield
Short Story Competition in 2007. His first book, Fish 'n' Chip Shop
Song and other stories went to number one on the New Zealand
bestselling fiction list, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth
Writers' Prize for Best First Book.
Nixon completed his first novel while he was the Ursula
Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury
University in 2006. Rocking Horse Road saw him identified as 'a
major talent' by North & South, and was long-listed for the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009. It has been
published in China, France, and Germany and was on several lists
for the best crime novels in Germany in 2012. His second novel,
Settlers' Creek, was also long-listed for the Dublin Literary
Award. His novel, The Virgin and the Whale is being developed as a
feature film by South Pacific Pictures.
His stage plays have been produced in every professional theatre in
New Zealand. They include Mathew, Mark, Luke and Joanne, The
Birthday Boy and The Raft. He has adapted for the stage Lloyd
Jones's novel The Book of Fame and JM Coetzee's Disgrace. He was
awarded the 2020 Howard McNaughton Prize at the Adam NZ Play
Awards, recognising excellence in an unproduced script.
In 2018 Carl Nixon was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton
Fellowship in France where he worked on The Tally Stick.
See more at www.carlnixon.co.nz/
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