Mister Pip

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Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a Wellington-based New Zealand author and brother of Sir Robert "Bob" Jones. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations. Lloyd Jones wrote 11 versions of the novel (according to a talk he gave at Whitireia Community Polytechnic in 2006), originally setting it on an unnamed Pacific island. The novel was ultimately set against the very real backdrop of the civil war on Bougainville Island during the 1990s (see History of Bougainville).

[edit] Awards and nominations

The novel won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.

In 2008, the American Library Association (ALA) awarded Mister Pip the Alex Award, given to adult books with specific teen appeal.