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Owen Marshall Jones (born 17 August 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones, and older brother of Rhys Jones, he came of age in Blenheim and
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Owen Marshall Jones (born 17 August 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones, and older brother of Rhys Jones, he came of age in Blenheim and Timaru
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, and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA in English in 1964. Marshall taught in a rural boys' high school for 25 years before becoming a full-time author.
Marshall has been ranked among the finest New Zealand short story writers.
Awards and honours
In 1985 and 1988, Marshall received the Lilian Ida Smith Award (Fiction). In the2000 New Year Honours
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, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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, for services to literature, and in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, he was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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, also for services to literature. In 2013, he was the winner of the fiction section of the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement is a New Zealand literary award established in 2003 by the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand), the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government. Each ...
Works
* ''Supper Waltz Wilson, and Other New Zealand Stories''. Christchurch : Pegasus, 1979. * ''The Master of Big Jingles & Other Stories''. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1982. * ''The Day Hemingway Died, and Other Stories''. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1984. * ''The Lynx Hunter, and Other Stories''. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1987. * ''An indirect geography'' adio narrativeby Owen Marshall. 1990. * ''The Divided World : Selected Stories''. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1989. * ''Tomorrow We Save the Orphans '': Fiction. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1992. * ''The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories: McIndoe Press, 1993. * ''Timeless Land''. Painter,Grahame Sydney
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; poet, Brian Turner; writer, Owen Marshall; with an introduction by Sam Neill
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. Dunedin : Longacre Press, 1995.
* ''The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories''. Auckland : Random House, 1997.
* ''Harlequin Rex''. Auckland: Vintage, 1999. (Novel)
* ''When Gravity Snaps''. Auckland: Vintage, 2002. (Short stories)
* ''The Larnachs''. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Novel, based on events in the life of William Larnach
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)
* ''Living as a Moon''. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Short stories)
* ''Love as a Stranger''. Auckland: Vintage, 2016. (Novel)
* ''Pearly Gates''. Auckland: Vintage, 2019. (Novel)
See also
*New Zealand literature
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References
External links
Owen Marshall website
NZ Book Council Writer's File for Owen Marshall
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Owen 1941 births Living people New Zealand male novelists University of Canterbury alumni Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit 20th-century New Zealand novelists New Zealand male short story writers People from Te Kūiti 20th-century New Zealand short story writers 20th-century New Zealand male writers New Zealand schoolteachers