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Lloyd Jones 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. 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. His novel Mister Pip was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
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. 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. His novel Mister Pip was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007.
New and upcoming books
Novels
Gilmore's Dairy (1985)
Splinter (1988)
Choo Woo (1998)
The Book of Fame (2000)
Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002)
Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004)
Paint Your Wife (2004)
Mister Pip (2006)
Hand Me Down World (2010)
The Cage (2018)
The Fish (2022)
Splinter (1988)
Choo Woo (1998)
The Book of Fame (2000)
Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002)
Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004)
Paint Your Wife (2004)
Mister Pip (2006)
Hand Me Down World (2010)
The Cage (2018)
The Fish (2022)
Collections
Swimming to Australia (1991)
This House Has Three Walls (1997)
The Man in the Shed (2011)
The Empty Grandstand (poems) (2024)
This House Has Three Walls (1997)
The Man in the Shed (2011)
The Empty Grandstand (poems) (2024)
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
Award nominations
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Lloyd Jones recommends
The Conductor (2012)
Sarah Quigley
"A superb book - an extraordinary period of history brought to life by a daring novelist."
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