Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)
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Lloyd Jones 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.
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.
Lloyd Jones' older brother is property tycoon and former politician Sir Bob Jones
.
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.
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
. 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.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
author who currently resides in Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
. His novel Mister Pip
Mister Pip
Mister Pip is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations....
won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
and was shortlisted for the Booker.
Early life and education
Jones attended Hutt Valley High SchoolHutt Valley High School
Hutt Valley High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is a uniformed school, with the uniform coming under review roughly every 5 years by the order of the Board of Trustee’s. The current principal is Ross Sinclair...
and Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses...
. 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.
Lloyd Jones' older brother is property tycoon and former politician Sir Bob Jones
Bob Jones (New Zealand)
Sir Robert 'Bob' Jones is a property tycoon, author and former politician in New Zealand. Growing up in the City of Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae, he attended Naenae College and then Victoria University of Wellington...
.
Literary career
In 1988 Jones was the recipient of the Katherine MansfieldKatherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...
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.
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
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
for Overall Best Book Award for his novel Mister Pip
Mister Pip
Mister Pip is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations....
. The novel is set during the Bougainville
Bougainville Province
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island , and the province also includes the island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets...
Civil War of the early 1990s in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
in 2007.
Jones was the 2007 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.
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 AwardsMontana New Zealand Book AwardsThe New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the 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 PipMister PipMister Pip is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations....
(2006) - recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
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)