Author Biography- Lloyd Jones -updated 15/01/09
Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a place 
which has become a frequent setting and subject for his subsequent works of fiction. He studied at Victoria University, and has worked as a journalist and consultant as well as a writer. His recent novels are: Biografi (1993); Choo Woo (1998); Here At The End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002); Paint Your Wife (2004);and Mister Pip (2007). He is alsothe author of a collection of short stoires, Swimming to Australia (1991).
In 2003, he published a children's picture book, Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer, and this was followed by Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004), a book for 9-14 year olds. He compiled Into the Field of Play: New Zealand Writers on the Theme of Sport (1992), and also wrote Last Saturday (1994)ays, with photographs by Bruce Foster. The Book of Fame (2000), is his semi-fictional account of the 1905 All-Black tour, and was adapted for the stage by Carol Nixon in 2003.
Lloyd Jones won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) and the Kiriyama Prize for his novel, Mister Pip (2007), set in Bougainville in the South Pacific, during the 1990s. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the same year he undertook a Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.
Lloyd Jones Books at Blackwells
Bibliography
Swimming to Australia Victoria University Press (New Zealand), 1991
Into the Field of Play: New Zealand Writers on the Theme of Sport (editor) Tandem Press (New Zealand), 1992
Biografi Deutsch, 1993
Last Saturday (photographs by Bruce Foster) Victoria University Press (New Zealand), 1994
This House Has Three Walls Victoria University Press (New Zealand), 1997
Choo Woo Victoria University Press (New Zealand), 1998
The Book of Fame Penguin (New Zealand), 2000
Here At The End of the World We Learn to Dance Penguin, 2002
Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer (illustrated by Graeme Gash) Mallinson Rendel (New Zealand), 2003
Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot St. Martin's Griffin (US), 2004
Paint Your Wife Penguin, 2004
Mister Pip John Murray, 2007
Prizes and awards
1991 New Zealand Book Award (fiction - shortlist) Swimming to Australia
2001 Montana Book Awards Deutz Medal (fiction) The Book of Fame
2002 Montana Book Award (New Zealand) (shortlist) Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance
2003 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize The Book of Fame
2004 LIANZA Children's Book Awards Russell Clark Award (illustration) Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer
2004 New Zealand Post Book Award (children and young adults - honor award) Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer
2004 Spectrum Print Book Design Award (best use of illustration) Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer
2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region Best Book - shortlist) Paint Your Wife
2005 New Zealand Post Book Award (children and young adults - honor award) Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot
2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) Mister Pip
2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) Mister Pip
2007 Montana Book Award (New Zealand) (fiction) Mister Pip
2007 Montana Book Award (New Zealand) (readers' choice) Mister Pip
2008 Booksellers Association Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (shortlsit) Mister Pip
2008 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year (shortlist) Mister Pip
2008 Kiriyama Prize Mister Pip
