Craig Marriner

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Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. His 2001 novel Stonedogs won a Montana New Zealand Book Award and in 2003 the film rights were sold to Australian production company Mushroom Pictures, a film based on the book is currently in production. His second novel Southern Style was published in 2006. He is currently working on a third novel about a group of backpackers trekking through Europe during the 2003 invasion of Iraq[1]

He describes himself as wanting to be seen as "a Kiwi art house youth culture-type writer."[2] Influences on his work are George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S Thompson, as well as journalist Robert Fisk and Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky.[1] His writing style has been compared to Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh.[2]

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  1. ^ a b Marriner returns. Rotorua Daily Post (2006-05-05).
  2. ^ a b Hard lines of reality. The New Zealand Herald (2001-09-29).


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