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Nick Earls Born Nicholas Francis Ward Earls
8 October 1963
Newtownards, Northern Ireland, UKOccupation Novelist
nickearls.comNick Earls (born 8 October 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland)[1] is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby.[2] The majority of Earls' novels are set in his hometown of Brisbane, a fact which led to his high local profile, and his fronting of a major Brisbane tourism campaign.[3]
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Biography
Nick Earls emigrated to Australia from Northern Ireland at the age of nine in 1972 with his parents and sister, and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School while living in Brisbane. He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland, and worked as a GP before turning to writing.[4]
Career
Zigzag Street, his second novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998 (sharing with Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard). His young-adult novel, 48 Shades of Brown, won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers in 2000. Several of his novels (After January and 48 Shades of Brown) have been adapted for theatre, and 48 Shades of Brown was adapted into a film entitled 48 Shades, released in August 2006. Earls has also written other novels, including Bachelor Kisses (which borrows its title from a song by incendiary Brisbane band The Go-Betweens), Perfect Skin, World of Chickens, The Thompson Gunner, and young adult novels After January, and Making Laws for Clouds.[5]
Earls has also contributed to the four best-selling anthologies in the Girls' Night In series as well as Kids' Night In and Kids' Night In 2 as editor. His most recent novels are The True Story of Butterfish, about a former rock star re-adjusting to mundane life in the Brisbane suburbs; Monica Bloom, based on his own adolescent experience of an ill-fated crush;[4] and Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, co-written with fellow Brisbane author Rebecca Sparrow.
Several of his books have been adapted for the stage by Brisbane's La Boite Theatre.
He has admitted to once editing his own Wikipedia page.[6]
Literary works
Year Work Notes 2011 The Fix novel 2009 The True Story of Butterfish novel 2007 Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight yound adult novel, co-written with Rebecca Sparrow A revealed life : Australian writers and their journeys in memoir collection of memoirs from Australian writers, including Nick Earls, edited by Julianne Schultz 2006 Monica Bloom young adult novel Making waves : 10 years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival collection of short works by Australian authors, including Nick Earls, edited by Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith and Fay Knight 2004 48 Shades of Brown young adult novel The Thompson Gunner novel 2003 Kid's Night In edited by Jessica Adams, Juliet Partridge and Nick Earls 2002 Making Laws for Clouds young adult novel 2001 World of Chickens novel 2000 Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3 collection of short stories by Australian authors including Nick Earls Perfect Skin novel 1999 Headgames collection of original short stories by Earls 1998 Bachelor Kisses novel There Must Be Lions: Stories About Mental Illness with Sonya Hartnett and Heide Seaman, features Nick Earl's short story There Must Be Lions The Gift of Story edited by Marion Halligan and Rosanne Fitzgibbon, features Nick Earls' short story Plaza 1996 Zigzag Street novel After January young adult novel Smashed: Australian drinking stories collection, edited by Matthew Condon and Richard Lawson, includes Nick Earls' short story Green Original Sin edited by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Box-shaped Heart Sporting Declaration edited by Manfred Jurgensen, includes Nick Earls' short story PE Blur: Stories by young Australian writers edited by James Bradley, includes Nick Earls' short story Head games 1995 Paradise To Paranoia: New Queensland Writing edited by Nigel Krauth and Robyn Sheehan, includes Nick Earls' short story Meanwhile, thirty-eight above Charlotte Picador New Writing 3 edited by Drusilla Modjeska and Beth Yahp, includes Nick Earls' short story The Goatflap brothers and the house of names Nightmares In Paradise compiled by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Juliet 1993 Queensland: Words and All edited by Manfred Jurgensen, includes Nick Earls' short stories Moving and Dog 1, Dog 2 1992 Passion short story 1985 Near and Far Away References
- ^ Author: Nick Earls, Penguin Group.
- ^ Wyndham, Susan: The Hot Seat: Nick Earls, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 2006.
- ^ Media Release: Nick Earls tells Brisbane's story through new campaign, Brisbane Marketing, 20 March 2002.
- ^ a b Silkstone, Dan: Mature face of Aussie lad lit, The Age, 15 July 2006.
- ^ Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. 23 April 2007.
- ^ Nick Earls' blog
External links
Categories:- Australian novelists
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Immigrants to Australia from Northern Ireland
- People from Brisbane
- People from Newtownards
- University of Queensland alumni
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