Justin James Cartwright (20 May 1943 – 3 December 2018) was a British novelist, originally from
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Biography
Cartwright was born in
Cape Town
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, South Africa, but grew up in
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where his father was the editor of the ''
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'' newspaper. He was educated in South Africa, the United States and at
Trinity College, Oxford
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. Cartwright worked in advertising and directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for the
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and then the
SDP-Liberal Alliance during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed an
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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presenter
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described Cartwright's novels as being "based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us". Three of Cartwright's early novels feature a character named Timothy Curtiz, named partly for Kurtz from
Joseph Conrad's ''
Heart of Darkness'', and partly for Cartwright's own brother. In ''Interior'', Curtiz is in Africa investigating the disappearance of his father in 1959 while on a trip for ''
National Geographic''. In ''Look at It This Way'', Curtiz is a columnist for ''Manhattan'' magazine while he is living in
London
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, has a daughter named Gemma, and by the end of the novel has a partner named Victoria. In ''Masai Dreaming'', Curtiz is in Africa researching a film about Claudia Cohn-Casson, and his relationship with Victoria is having "complications." ''Look at It This Way'' was made into a three-part, 180-minutes drama by the
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; Cartwright wrote the screenplay.
''In Every Face I Meet'' was shortlisted for both the
; ''Leading the Cheers'' won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998; ''White Lightning'' was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award in 2002. ''Masai Dreaming'' won the South African
of South Africa.
Cartwright lived in London with his wife, Penny, and two sons.
* ''Deep Six'' (1972)
* ''Fighting Men'' (1977)
* ''Horse of Darius'' (1980)
* ''Freedom for the Wolves'' (1983)
* ''Interior'' (1988)
* ''Look at it This Way'' (1990)
* ''Masai Dreaming'' (1993)
* ''In Every Face I Meet'' (1995)
* ''Leading the Cheers'' (1998)
* ''Half in Love'' (2001)
* ''White Lightning'' (2002)
* ''The Promise of Happiness'' (2005)
* ''The Song Before it is Sung'' (2007)
* ''To Heaven by Water'' Bloomsbury (2009)
*
Bloomsbury (2011)
* ''Lion Heart'' (2013)
* ''Up Against the Night'' (2015, Bloomsbury)
* ''Not Yet Home'' (1997)
* ''This Secret Garden'' (2008)
* ''Oxford Revisited'' (2008)