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Profile
William Brandt is one of New Zealand’s best younger novelists.
His style is both comic and emotionally engaging, in the tradition of Nick Hornby
and Tony Parsons, and draws on his experience as an actor and screenwriter.
Selected published works
Alpha Male, 1999, Best First Book of Fiction, 1999 Montana New
Zealand Book Awards; The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life, 2002.
Agent
Caroline Dawnay Peters Fraser and Dunlop Drury House 34-43 Russell
Street London WC2B 5HA www.pfd.co.uk
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Publishers
Victoria University Press www.vuw.ac.nz/vup
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Biography
William Brandt was born in London in 1961 to New Zealand parents. He
grew up in New Zealand and has lived in Australia, Russia and the United Kingdom.
He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and has
appeared in many films and television productions. He has also written for theatre,
film and television. His debut collection of short stories, Alpha Male,
won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award at the 1999 Montana New Zealand
Book Awards.
His writing has tended to take a wry angle on the plight of the male in contemporary
urban industrialised society, a creature in search of a raison d’être
in the age of “liberated” women.
In 2002, Victoria University Press published Brandt’s first novel, The
Book of the Film of the Story of My Life, to popular and critical acclaim.
It was longlisted for the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 2003 Montana New Zealand
Book Awards. In July 2003 the British edition of The Book of the Film of
the Story of My Life was published by Jonathan Cape and the United States
edition was published by Warner Books in 2005.
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