Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright (born 1945) is a British novelist.

He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the "Rand Daily Mail" newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for the Liberal Party and then the SDP-Liberal Alliance during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed an MBE.

Cartwright lives in London with his wife, Penny, and two sons.

Bibliography

His novels under his own name include:

* "Deep Six" (1972)
* "Fighting Men" (1977)
* "Horse of Darius" (1980) ISBN 0-440-13761-6
* "Freedom for the Wolves" (1983)
* "Interior" (1988) ISBN 0-679-40866-5
* "Look at it This Way" (1990) ISBN 0-333-54831-0
* "Masai Dreaming" (1993) ISBN 0-333-59281-6
* "In Every Face I Meet" (1995) ISBN 0-340-63782-X
* "Leading the cheers" (1998) ISBN 0-340-63784-6
* "Half in Love" (2001) ISBN 0-340-76629-8
* "White Lightning" (2002) ISBN 0-340-82174-4
* "The Promise of Happiness" (2005) ISBN 0-312-34880-0
* "The Song Before it is Sung" (2007)

Non-fiction works include:

* "Not Yet Home" (1997) ISBN 1-85702-526-1
* "This Secret Garden" (2008) ISBN 0-747-57961-X

Australian Broadcasting Corporation presenter Ramona Koval described Cartwright's novels as being "... based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us".

Three of Cartwright's early novels feature a character named Timothy Curtiz, named partly for Kurtz from Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", and partly for Cartwright's own brother. In "Interior", Curtiz is in Africa investigating the disappearance of his father in 1959 while on a trip for "National Geographic". In "Look At It This Way", Curtiz is a columnist for "Manhattan" magazine while he is living in London, has a daughter named Gemma, and by the end of the novel has a partner named Victoria. In "Masai Dreaming", Curtiz is in Africa researching a film about Claudia Cohn-Casson, and his relationship with Victoria is having "complications."

"Look At It This Way" was made into a three-part, 180-minutes drama by the BBC in 1992, starring Kristin Scott Thomas; Cartwright wrote the screenplay.

Literary prizes

"In Every Face I Meet" was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award in 1995, and won a Commonwealth Writers Prize; "Leading the Cheers" won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998; "White Lightning" was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award in 2002."Masai Dreaming" won the South African M Net award."The Promise of Happiness" was chosen as one of Richard and Judy's Book Club's titles for 2005 and was the winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize and the Sunday Times of South Africa Prize.

Cartwright's films include "Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse", made in 1978.

External links

* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=706&section=1 Justin Cartwright]


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