Damien Wilkins (writer)

Damien Wilkins (born 1963 Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Life

He was graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 1984. He was assistant editor at Victoria University Press in 1988. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with an MFA. Since 1992 he has been a writing tutor in Wellington, New Zealand.^[1][2] He teaches at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.^[3]

His work has appeared in Sport.^[4]

Awards

• 1989 Heinemann Reed Fiction Award
• 1992 Whiting Award
• 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction

Works

Novels

• The Miserables. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. 
  • American edition. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1993. ISBN 978-0-15-160523-1. 
• Little Masters Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1996
  • American edition. New York: Henry Holt. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8050-4951-0. 
• Chemistry. Granta. 2002. ISBN 978-1-86207-549-8. 
• The Fainter Victoria University Press, 2006
• Somebody Loves Us All Victoria University Press, 2009

Short stories

• The Veteran Perils. Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed. 1990. ISBN 978-0-7900-0124-1. 
• For everyone concerned and other stories. Victoria University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-86473-559-1. 

Poetry

• The Idles. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-86473-253-8. 

Anthologies

• Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, eds. (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0. 

Editor

• Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988-2004, Victoria University Press, 2005.

References

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Antonella Sarti (1998). "Damien Wilkins". Spiritcarvers. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-0703-1.