The Virgin and the Whale
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Carl Nixon is an award-winning short story writer, novelist and playwright. His first book, Fish ’n’ Chip Shop Song and other stories went to number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. In 2007 he won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition.
Nixon completed his first novel while he was the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2006. Rocking Horse Road saw him identified as ‘a major talent’ by North & South, and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards 2009. His second novel, Settlers’ Creek, was also long-listed for the IMPAC in 2012. Both novels have also been published in Germany.
His writing for theatre includes The Birthday Boy and The Raft, numerous plays for children, and he has adapted for the stage Lloyd Jones’s novel The Book of Fame and JM Coetzee’s Disgrace.
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