Writer in Residence
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Current Writer - Carl Shuker
Carl Shuker is a graduate of the 2001 MA in Creative Writing. His first novel, The Method Actors, began life there as his master's thesis, and was published by Counterpoint in 2005 and awarded the Prize in Modern Letters in 2006. His second novel, the cult classic The Lazy Boys, was published by Counterpoint in 2006 and Penguin NZ in 2007. Three Novellas for a Novel was published in limited edition online in 2008 and in 2013 he published his fourth novel, Anti Lebanon.
After many years in Tokyo and London, he has returned to Wellington with his wife, poet and academic Anna Smaill, and his daughter Lotte, to take up the writer in residence position at Victoria.
Read more:
New Zealand Book Council profile
Previous Writers
[Click on thumbnail image to view writer portrait. All portraits copyright Robert Cross.]
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2012 |
Bernard Beckett | image to come |
| 2011 | Albert Belz | image to come |
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2010 |
Jenny Bornholdt |
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2009 |
Paula Boock |
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2008 |
David Geary |
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2007 |
Dave Armstrong |
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2006 |
Bernadette Hall |
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2005 |
Stephanie de Montalk |
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2004 |
James Brown |
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2003 |
Briar Grace-Smith |
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2002 |
Chris Orsman |
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2001 |
Charlotte Randall |
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2000 |
Damien Wilkins |
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1999 |
Barbara Else |
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1998 |
Lorae Parry |
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1997 |
Elizabeth Knox |
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1996 |
Jane Tolerton |
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1995 |
Gregory O'Brien |
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1994 |
Chris Pugsley |
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1993 |
Jack Lasenby |
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1992 |
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell |
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1991 |
Barbara Anderson |
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1990 |
Marilyn Duckworth |
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1989 |
Maurice Gee |
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1988 |
Fiona Kidman |
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1987 |
Lauris Edmond |
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1986 |
Stevan Eldred-Grigg |
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1985 |
Patricia Grace |
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1984 |
Ian Wedde |
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1983 |
Michael King |
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1982 |
Witi Ihimaera |
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1981 |
Vincent O'Sullivan |
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1980 |
Louis Johnson |
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1979 |
Joe Musaphia |
