Nick Earls

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Nick Earls (born 1963) is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby. The majority of Earls' novels are set in his hometown of Brisbane, a fact which led to his high local profile, and his fronting of a major Brisbane tourism campaign.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Biography

Nick Earls moved to Australia from Northern Ireland in 1972 with his parents and sister.

[edit] Career

Zigzag Street, his second novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998 (sharing with Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard). His young-adult novel 48 Shades of Brown won a CBC Book of the Year Award. Several of his novels have been adapted for theatre, and 48 Shades of Brown was adapted into a film entitled 48 Shades, released in August 2006.

Earls has also contributed to the four best-selling anthologies in the Girls' Night In series as well as Kids' Night In and Kids' Night In 2 as editor. His most recent novel is Monica Bloom, based on his own adolescent experience of an ill-fated crush.