Profile
Anthony McCarten is celebrated film maker, novelist and playwright. His stage
plays include the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, co-written
with Stephen Sinclair, which won France's prestigious Molière prize, the Meilleure
Pièce Comique in 2001. Translated into twelve languages, it remains New Zealand’s most commercially successful play of all time. He has written eleven other widely produced plays. He adapted his play, Via Satellite, 1991, into a feature film which he directed and which had its world premiere at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
To order McCarten’s playscripts, Via Satellite, 1991; Hang on a Minute Mate, 1992; Filth: Failed in London, Try Hong Kong, 1995; Four Cities, 1995, contact Playmarket.
McCarten is currently at work filming his own feature film adaptation of his fourth, upcoming novel, Endurance, on location in New Zealand. The selected published works below are novels.
Selected published works
Spinners, 1998; The English Harem, 2001; Brilliance, 2003; Death of a Superhero, 2005; Show of Hands, 2008.
Publishers
Vintage, Random House New Zealand www.randomhouse.co.nz
Picador www.picador.co.uk
Biography
Born in 1961, Anthony McCarten has written novels, plays and short stories. His first novel, Spinners, has been translated into six languages, and was voted one of the top ten novels of 2000 by readers of Esquire magazine. Film rights have been sold to producer David Parfitt (“Shakespeare In Love”). He has since written the screenplay. He has also adapted his second novel, The English Harem, as a feature film for ITV. Foreign book rights have sold to Greece and Germany. His latest novel Death Of A Superhero, has been published in Britain and is being translated into six languages. His adaptation of this novel won acceptance at the prestigious eQuinoxe script lab in Paris in 2005, and the New Zealand Film Commission has financed script development. McCarten currently resides in the Cotswolds with his English partner and their two children.
