Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)
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Lloyd Jones | |
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 Lloyd Jones in 2012 | |
| Born | 23 March 1955 Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable works | Mister Pip |
| Relatives | Bob Jones (brother) |
Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Lower Hutt in 1955, and 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 but he completed his course of study. He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Victoria University in May 2009.[1]
Jones's older brother is property investor and former politician Sir Bob Jones.
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]
Awards and honours
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- 1989 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship
- 1991 New Zealand Book Award
- 2001 Montana Book Awards Deutz Medla
- 2002 Montana Book Awards (New Zealand)
- 2003 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize
- 2004 Spectrum Print Book Design Award
- 2004 the Russell Clark Award for distinguished contribution to illustration at the LIANZA Children's Book Awards
- 2005 New Zealand Post Book Award
- 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize
- 2005 Storylines Notable Non-fiction Book
- 2007 Montana Book Awards (New Zealand)
- 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
- 2007 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency
- 2008 Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship
- 2008 Arts Foundation New Zealand Laureate
- 2008 Kiriyama Prize
- 2008 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
- 2008 Booksellers Association Independent Booksellers' Book Prize
- 2008 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[5]
- Honorary Doctorate Degree from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand in 2009.
Selected works
- 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 an Honour Award in the Picture Book category at the NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2004.[6][7]
- Everything You Need to Know about the World by Simon Eliot, illustrated by Timon Maxey (Four Winds Press, 2004); US title, Everything You Need to Know About the World (2007)
- 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)
- The Man in the Shed (2011)
- A History of Silence: A memoir (Auckland: Penguin, 2013)
References
- ^ [1] Archived March 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jones, Lloyd". New Zealand Book Council. 2013-08-19. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ "NZ author wins prestigious prize". One News. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ "2004 Awards". New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Wellington, New Zealand: Booksellers New Zealand. 28 September 2011. OCLC 182896192. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ "New Zealand Post Book of the Year". Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch City Libraries. 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
External links
- Bibliography from The University of Auckland Library
- New Zealand Book Council, including entry from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (1998)
- Lloyd Jones at Library of Congress
- Lloyd Jones featured on the Christchurch City Libraries Interviews with NZ Children's Authors site
- Lloyd Jones’ Arts Foundation Laureate profile
- Lloyd Jones interview with Margaret Throsby (including music choices) Wednesday 21 November 2012
- Lloyd Jones interview with Richard Fidler ABC radio Tuesday 28 October 2014
- 'the Christchurch earthquake shook loose Lloyd Jones family secrets' Tuesday 8 October 2013
- One Plus One (ABC) interview with Jane Hutcheon 11 February 2015
