Carl Nixon

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Carl Nixon (* 1967 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand author of novels, short stories and dramas. He adapted Lloyd Jones ' novel The Book of Fame and JM Coetzee's Shame for the theater. He won many prizes with his works, including a. the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Contest. In 2007 Nixon was the Ursula Bethell / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury . There he completed his first novel Rocking Horse Road . He has also written numerous plays for children.

Carl Nixon holds a Masters degree in Theology from Canterbury University. In 1993 he taught English at Linwood High School in Christchurch for a year. He then spent two years in Japan and also taught there. Since 1997 he has devoted himself mainly to his writing activity, which includes dramas - both comedies and tragedies -, short stories and novels.

Nixon won many awards for his short stories and was often shortlisted . He won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition twice for My Father Running with a Dead Boy (1997) and Weight (1999). In 2007 he won the renowned Katherine Mansfield Short Story Contest. His collection of short stories Fish'n Chip Shop Song ( Random House , 2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the "Best First Book Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region" category.

In 2006, during his time as Ursula Bethell / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence, Carl Nixon completed his first novel Rocking Horse Road , published by Random House in 2007 , as well as his second novel Settler's Creek (2010) and his third novel The Virgin and the Whale (2013).

Nixon's dramatic activities include adapting Lloyd Jones' novel The Book of Fame and the novel Shame of Nobel Prize Winner JM Coetzee. His plays The Raft and The Birthday Boy premiered at the Court Theater in 2007 and 2008, respectively, and have since been produced across the country. His most recent play, Two Fish 'n' a Scoop , premiered at the Court Theater in October 2010. Nixon also wrote some plays for children, including a. The Little Mermaid (2000), The Reluctant Dragon (2000) and The Beauty and the Beast (2000). He also published a youth novel entitled Guardians of Mother Earth (1997).

A German translation of Nixon's novel Rocking Horse Road was published in late July 2012. In September 2013, his second novel, Settlers Creek, was published in German. In 2015 the translation of The Virgin and the Whale followed under the title Lucky Newman . In 2019 the translation of the story collection Fish 'N' Chip Shop Song into German was published.

Web links

  • Biography . Carl Nixon, archived from the original on September15, 2013; accessed on February 7, 2016(English, original website no longer available).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Nixon : Rocking Horse Road . Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-938803-50-9 (English: Rocking Horse Road . Auckland 2007. Translated by Stefan Weidle).
  2. ^ Carl Nixon : Settlers Creek . Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-938803-60-8 (English: Settlers Creek . Auckland 2010. Translated by Stefan Weidle).
  3. ^ Carl Nixon : Lucky Newman . Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-938803-71-4 (English: The Virgin and the Whale . Auckland 2013. Translated by Stefan Weidle, Ruth Keen).
  4. ↑ Fish'N'Chip Shop Song. Stories. Translation: Kim Lüftner, Martina Schmid, Martina Sumburane. CulturBooks Verlag, 2019. ISBN 3-95988-107-X .


personal data
SURNAME Nixon, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand author
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Christchurch