Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)
Lloyd Jones (born in Lower Hutt, 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author who currently resides in Wellington. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.
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[edit] Early life and education
Jones attended Hutt Valley High School and Victoria University of Wellington. Despite fulfilling the requirements of a political science degree, Jones was unable to graduate from university due to library fines owing at the time he completed his course of study. He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Victoria University in May 2009.[1]
Lloyd Jones' older brother is property tycoon and former politician Sir Bob Jones.
[edit] Literary career
In 1988 Jones was the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. In 1994 he curated an exhibition which illustrated the New Zealand Saturday. The work was a collaboration with photographer Bruce Foster and held at the National Library in Wellington. The work was published as The Last Saturday and included historical photographs, contemporary photographs by Foster and an essay by Jones. [2]
In May 2003, a theatrical adaptation of Jones' novel The Book of Fame was presented at Wellington's Downstage Theatre.
In May 2007, Jones won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book Award for his novel Mister Pip. The novel is set during the Bougainville Civil War of the early 1990s in Papua New Guinea.[3] The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.
Jones was the 2007 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.[4]
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Gilmore's Dairy (1985)
- Splinter (1988)
- Swimming to Australia, and Other Stories (1991)
- Biografi: An Albanian Quest (1993) – a New York Times Notable Book.
- This House Has Three Walls (1997)
- Choo Woo (1998)
- Book of Fame (2000) - winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002) - shortlisted in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer (2003) - winner of the Honour Award at the NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2004.
- Paint Your Wife (2004)
- Mister Pip (2006) - recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South East Asia and the South Pacific and Overall Best Book. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
- Hand Me Down World (2010)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.victoria.ac.nz/scps/news/
- ^ JONES, Lloyd
- ^ "NZ author wins prestigious prize". One News. 28 May 2007. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1153806. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ^ http://www.stuff.co.nz/3985980a4501.html accessed on the 30th of March 2007
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