Owen Marshall

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Marshall in 2012

Owen Marshall Jones Template:Post-nominals (born 17 August 1941), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist.

Early life and family

Marshall was born in Te Kūiti on 17 August 1941.[1] He was the third of nine children; his father was a Methodist minister, and his mother (whose maiden name was Marshall) died when he was two. His father remarried about three years later and went on to have a further six children. The family lived in Blenheim and Timaru, and Marshall was educated at Timaru Boys' High School. He graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Arts degree in English in 1964, and taught at Waitaki Boys' High School for 25 years before becoming a full-time author.[2]

Marshall is the older half-brother of Rhys Jones.[3]

Awards and honours

In 1985 and 1988, Marshall received the Lilian Ida Smith Award (Fiction).[4] In the 2000 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature,[5] and in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, he was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to literature.[6] In 2013, he was the winner of the fiction section of the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[7]

Works

  • Supper Waltz Wilson, and Other New Zealand Stories. Christchurch : Pegasus, 1979.
  • The Master of Big Jingles & Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1982.
  • The Day Hemingway Died, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1984.
  • The Lynx Hunter, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1987.
  • An indirect geography [radio narrative] by Owen Marshall. 1990.
  • The Divided World : Selected Stories. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1989.
  • Tomorrow We Save the Orphans : Fiction. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1992.
  • The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories: McIndoe Press, 1993.
  • Timeless Land. Painter, Grahame Sydney; poet, Brian Turner; writer, Owen Marshall; with an introduction by Sam Neill. Dunedin : Longacre Press, 1995.
  • The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories. Auckland : Random House, 1997.
  • Harlequin Rex. Auckland: Vintage, 1999. (Novel)
  • When Gravity Snaps. Auckland: Vintage, 2002. (Short stories)
  • The Larnachs. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Novel, based on events in the life of William Larnach)
  • Living as a Moon. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Short stories)
  • Love as a Stranger. Auckland: Vintage, 2016. (Novel)
  • Pearly Gates. Auckland: Vintage, 2019. (Novel)
  • Return to Harikoa Bay. Auckland: Vintage, 2022. (Short stories)
  • New Stories. Auckland: Penguin, 2024. (Short stories)

Two of Marshall's short stories have been turned into feature films. Coming Home in the Dark (2021) is a psychological thriller directed by James Ashcroft.[8] Horror film, The Rule of Jenny Pen, also directed by Ashcroft, was released in 2024.[9]

See also

References

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