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  <name><![CDATA[Lloyd Jones]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a place which has become a frequent setting and subject for his subsequent works of fiction. He studied at Victoria University, and has worked as a journalist and consultant as well as a writer. His recent novels are: Biografi (1993); Choo Woo (1998); Here At The End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002); Paint Your Wife (2004);and Mister Pip (2007). He is also the author of a collection of short stoires, Swimming to Australia (1991).

 

In 2003, he published a children's picture book, Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer, and this was followed by Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004), a book for 9-14 year olds. He compiled Into the Field of Play: New Zealand Writers on the Theme of Sport (1992), and also wrote Last Saturday (1994), the book of an exhibition about New Zealand Saturdays, with photographs by Bruce Foster.  The Book of Fame (2000), is his semi-fictional account of the 1905 All-Black tour, and was adapted for the stage by Carol Nixon in 2003. 

 

Lloyd Jones won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) and the Kiriyama Prize for his  novel, Mister Pip (2007), set in Bougainville in the South Pacific, during the 1990s. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the same year he undertook a Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.
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  <title><![CDATA[Mister Pip]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Biografi: A Traveler's Tale]]></title>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Fame]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[My First Colouring Book]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mr Cassini]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Choo woo]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Plight of Man and the Power of God]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[This House Has Three Walls]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lloyd Jones]]></name>
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