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'incredibly well crafted and as is traditional with Owen Marshall every single word is placed perfectly' - NZ Radio
Owen Marshall, described by Vincent O'Sullivan as 'New Zealand's
best prose writer', is an award-winning novelist, short-story
writer, poet and anthologist, who has written or edited more than
30 books, including the bestselling novel The Larnachs. Numerous
awards for his fiction include the New Zealand Literary Fund
Scholarship in Letters, fellowships at Otago and Canterbury
universities, and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in
Menton, France. In 2000 he became an Officer of the New Zealand
Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to literature; in 2012 was made
a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM); and in 2013
he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in
Fiction. In 2000 his novel Harlequin Rex won the Montana New
Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction. Many of his other
books have been shortlisted for major awards, and his work has been
extensively anthologised.
In addition, in 2003 he was the inaugural recipient of the Creative
New Zealand Writers' Fellowship, and was the 2009/10 Antarctica New
Zealand Arts Fellow. In 2006 he was invited by the French Centre
National du Livre to participate in their Les Belles Etranges
festival and subsequent tour, anthology and documentary. He was the
President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors 2007-08
and delivered the 2010 Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture.
He was a school teacher for many years, having graduated with an MA
(Hons) from the University of Canterbury, which in 2002 awarded him
the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, and in 2005 appointed him
an adjunct professor.
See more at www.owenmarshall.net.nz.
Many leading contemporary writers have counted themselves amongst
his admirers, including Janet Frame and Fiona Kidman, who wrote of
his work, 'I find myself exclaiming over and again with delight at
the precision, the beauty, the near perfection of his writing.'
Writer, historian and literary biographer Michael King wrote of
Marshall, 'Quite simply the most able and the most successful
exponent of the short story currently writing in New Zealand.' In
World Literature Today, Carolyn Bliss described Marshall as a
writer who 'speaks with equal intensity to the unbearable
loveliness and malevolence of life'. Writer and academic Vincent
O'Sullivan has claimed 'nobody tells our New Zealand stories
better'.
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