Craig Marriner
Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. He is best-known for his award-winning first novel Stonedogs (2001).
Early life[]
Marriner was born in Rotorua and had what he describes as a "strictly working-class background"; his father was a forestry worker until he was made redundant. Marriner left high school before completing his final year, describing himself as being "on the edge of the rails by then". He moved to the remote town of Mount Magnet, Western Australia with the intention of getting a mining job, and worked doing geological sampling. He subsequently spend four years working in Europe.[1]
Career[]
Marriner's debut novel Stonedogs (2001) won the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the Fiction Prize and the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[2] In 2003 the film rights were sold to Australian production company Mushroom Pictures,[3] although as of 2021 no film has been made. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship.[4] His second novel Southern Style was published in 2006. At the time he was said to have been working on a third novel about a group of backpackers trekking through Europe during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[5]
Style[]
In 2001 Marriner described himself as wanting to be seen as "a Kiwi art house youth culture-type writer".[1] He cited his influences as George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S Thompson, as well as journalist Robert Fisk and Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky.[5] His writing style has been compared to Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Reid, Graeme (27 September 2001). "Hard lines of reality". NZ Herald. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ "Past Winners: 2002". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ George, Sandy (17 April 2003). "Mushroom options NZ gang tale Stonedogs". Screen Daily. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Lay, Graeme (9 May 2016). "Ockham national book awards: The curious case of the strangest ever winner of a book award in New Zealand". The Spinoff. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mather, Mike (5 May 2006). "Marriner returns". Rotorua Daily Post. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
External links[]
- Marriner's profile at Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
- Review of Stonedogs by Duncan McLean for The Spinoff, 30 November 2017
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