Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)
- Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)
Lloyd Jones (born in Lower Hutt, 23 March, 1955) is a New Zealand author who currently resides in Wellington.
He is a graduate of Victoria University. In 1988 he was the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship.
In 1994 he curated an exhibition which illustrated the New Zealand Saturday. This work was a collaboration with photographer Bruce Foster and held at the National Library in Wellington. The work was published as the 'The Last Saturday' and included historical photographs, contemporary ones by Foster and an essay by Jones. [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/joneslloyd.html JONES, Lloyd ] ]
In May 2003, a theatrical adaptation of his novel 'The Book of Fame' was presented at Wellington's Downstage Theatre.
In May 2007, he 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. [ [http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1153806 NZ author wins prestigious prize | ENTERTAINMENT | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz ] ] His novel "Mister Pip" was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
From August 2007 he will spend a year in Berlin as beneficiary of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. [http://www.stuff.co.nz/3985980a4501.html accessed on the 30th of March 2007]
He is the younger brother of property tycoon Bob Jones.
elected 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.
* "Manoli 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. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
References
External links
* [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/jones.htm Complete bibliography]
* [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/joneslloyd.html New Zealand Book Council entry]
* [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676979275&view=excerpt Excerpt from Mister Pip]
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