Nick Earls
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| Nick Earls | |
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| Born | Nicholas Francis Ward Earls October 8, 1963 Newtownards, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Nick Earls (born October 8, 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland)[1] is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby.[2] 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.[3]
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[edit] Biography
Nick Earls emigrated to Australia from Northern Ireland in 1972 with his parents and sister, and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School while living in Brisbane. He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland, and worked as a GP before turning to writing.[4]
[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 the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers in 2000. Several of his novels (After January and 48 Shades of Brown) 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 written other novels, including Bachelor Kisses, Perfect Skin, Solid Gold, World of Chickens, The Thompson Gunner, and young adult novels After January, and Making Laws for Clouds.[5]
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 novels are Monica Bloom, based on his own adolescent experience of an ill-fated crush;[4] and Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, co-authored with Rebecca Sparrow.
[edit] References
- ^ Author: Nick Earls, Penguin Group.
- ^ Wyndham, Susan: The Hot Seat: Nick Earls, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 2, 2006.
- ^ Media Release: Nick Earls tells Brisbane's story through new campaign, Brisbane Marketing, 20 March 2002.
- ^ a b Silkstone, Dan: Mature face of Aussie lad lit, The Age, July 15, 2006.
- ^ Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. April 23, 2007.
