Lloyd Jones (writer)

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Lloyd Jones 2012 in Frankfurt

Lloyd Jones (born March 23, 1955 in Lower Hutt near Wellington ) is a New Zealand writer . He is considered the country's outstanding contemporary novelist , but has also appeared as an essayist , editor and author of children's books .

Life and work

After studying political science at Victoria University of Wellington , Jones worked as a journalist. As a correspondent and reporter, he traveled to Asia, Europe and the USA.

In 1985, when he was 30, he published his first novel, Gilmore's Dairy . It is a black humor portrayal of a young man's conflicts with the traditions in a New Zealand village. The volume of short stories Swimming to Australia , published three years later, was extensively devoted to the "absurdities of everyday life" in his home country. The fruit of a trip to Albania in 1991 was the novel-like travel story The Man Who Enver Hodscha was , which was published in the English-language original in 1993 and a year later in a German translation. It is about a double of the fallen dictator Enver Hoxha , who finds himself robbed of his own life story because of his role in the state. Although it is largely based on on-site research, the book is not travel literature , but a veritable novel .

The book of Fame , published in 2000, traces the pitfalls of ambition and sudden prominence . At the center of the plot is the triumphant winning streak of the New Zealand national rugby team " All Blacks " through Europe in 1905. The following novel Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance from 2002 examines yet another completely different living environment is a secret love story that takes place in the milieu of the dance enthusiasts of the Argentine tango .

The novel Mister Pip , published in 2006, earned him several internationally renowned literary prizes . These include the " Commonwealth Writers' Prize " and the " Kiriyama Prize ". From the perspective of a 13-year-old student, the story of Mr. Watts, who became a teacher because of circumstances, is told, who teaches his young listeners the invigorating, subversive power of literature by reading Great Expectations from Charles Dickens to them . The novel is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s, which Lloyd Jones witnessed on site as a journalist.

From August 2007 Jones was a guest in Berlin for one year on a working grant from the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency program .

Jones has received many awards, including a. with the " Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize " and the " Deutz Medal for Fiction ". "Mister Pip" was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize .

Lloyd Jones is the younger brother of real estate tycoon Bob Jones .

Works (selection)

  • Mister Pip , Penguin Books , Auckland, London 2006
  • Paint your Wife , Penguin, Auckland, London 2004
  • Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance . Penguin, Auckland, London 2002
    • Here, at the end of the world, we learn to dance . Novel. Translated from the English by Grete Osterwald. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2014
  • The Book of Fame . Penguin, Auckland, London, 2000 (Winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2001)
  • Choo Woo . Victoria University Press, Wellington 1998
  • This house has three walls . Victoria University Press, Wellington 1997
  • Biography: An Albanian Quest . Victoria University Press, Wellington 1993 (German: The man who Enver Hodscha was . Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1994)
  • Swimming to Australia . Victoria University Press, Wellington 1991
  • Splinter . Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, London 1988
  • Gilmore's Dairy . Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, London 1985
  • Hand me down world . Text Publishing, Melbourne 2010
  • The woman in the blue coat . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012 ISBN 978-3-498-03238-8
Children's books
  • Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot . Four Winds Press, Cincinnati 2004
  • Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer . Mallinson Rendel, Wellington 2003
editor
  • Into the field of play . Tandem Press, Auckland 1992

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lloyd Jones (New Zealand). Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2007, accessed on January 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors Bill - First Reading . New Zealand Parliament , July 3, 2008, accessed January 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Hutt