Damien Wilkins (writer)

Damien Wilkins (born 1963 Lower Hutt, New Zealand – ) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Life

He was graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1984. He was assistant editor at Victoria University Press in 1988. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with an MFA. Since 1992 he has been a writing tutor in Wellington, New Zealand.^[1][2] He teaches at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.^[3]

His work appeared in Sport.^[4]

Awards

• Heinemann Reed Fiction Award
• 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction
• 1992 Whiting Writers' Award

Works

Novels

• The Miserables. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. 
  • American edition. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.. 1993. ISBN 9780151605231. 
• Little Masters Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1996
  • American edition. New York: Henry Holt. 1997. ISBN 9780805049510. 
• Chemistry. Granta. 2002. ISBN 9781862075498. 
• The Fainter Victoria University Press, 2006
• Somebody Loves Us All Victoria University Press, 2009

Short Stories

• The Veteran Perils. Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed. 1990. ISBN 9780790001241. 
• For everyone concerned and other stories. Victoria University Press. 2008. ISBN 9780864735591. 

Poetry

• The Idles. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. 1993. ISBN 9780864732538. 

Anthologies

• Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, ed (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 9780195583380. 

Editor

• Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988-2004, Victoria University Press, 2005.

References

1. ^ http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Wilkins,%20Damien
2. ^ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4836/Wilkins-Damien.html
3. ^ http://sportmagazine.org/sport33/33contributors.htm
4. ^ http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-202063.html#written-works

External links

• Antonella Sarti (1998). "Damien Wilkins". Spiritcarvers. Rodopi. ISBN 9789042007031. http://books.google.com/books?id=A5BYp5TiEvIC&pg=PA215&dq=Damien+Wilkins+(writer)&lr=&cd=18#v=onepage&q=Damien%20Wilkins%20(writer)&f=false. 

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