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Profile
Craig Marriner’s debut novel Stonedogs was the winner
of the prestigious Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards
in 2002. He writes with the conviction of inside knowledge of the underbelly
of contemporary New Zealand society. His second novel, Southern Style,
burrows below the surface of young antipodeans in London.
Selected published works
Stonedogs, 2001, Deutz Medal for Fiction, Montana New Zealand
Book Awards 2002, and Southern Style, 2006.
Biography
Craig Marriner was born in 1974 and grew up in Rotorua, a city that features
strongly in his novel Stonedogs. He has mined gold in the Australian
outback, worked security at English soccer stadiums, wintered on an angry Mt
Ruapehu, MCed at an Amsterdam comedy club, haggled in the markets of Istanbul
and slept in more train stations than he cares to remember.
He has been hailed as the spokesperson of his generation, of small-town, disaffected
youth. As such, he has found himself identified as New Zealand’s response
to Irvine Welsh and Quentin Tarantino. “I’d like to be seen as a
Kiwi arthouse youth culture-type writer, that’s the niche I’m hoping
to slide into,” Marriner says.
When Stonedogs won the 2002 Deutz Medal for Fiction, it placed Marriner
on the literary map. He is working on a screenplay of Stonedogs for
a feature film in development with Mushroom Pictures. Marriner was the Buddle
Findlay Sargeson Fellow for 2004.
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