Craig Cliff

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Craig Cliff
Born1983
Palmerston North
Occupationwriter
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma mater Victoria University of Wellington
Genrefiction

Craig Cliff (born 1983) is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. [1]

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Background

Craig Cliff was born in Palmerston North in 1983. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with an MA in Creative Writing. [2]

Career

In 2007, Cliff won the novice category of the 2007 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award for his short story "Another Language". [3]

He won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book for his short story collection A Man Melting. [4]

His first novel, The Mannequin Makers, was published in 2013. According to Sam Finnimore in The New Zealand Listener, "The Mannequin Makers lives up to its cover blurb billing Cliff as a talent to watch – it’s tremendous, darkly entertaining and original from start to finish." [5] The novel was also published in the US, [6] UK [7] and in Romanian translation. [8]

Nailing Down the Saint, Cliff's second novel, was published in 2019. [9]

From 2010 to 2014, Cliff wrote a fortnightly column for the Dominion Post . [10] He participated in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2013. [11]

In 2015 Cliff was a recipient of Eleanor Catton's Horoeka Grant. In response he wrote an essay on the rise of professional video gaming. [12] He received the 2017 Robert Burns Fellowship. [13]

Works

Short story collections

Novels

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  2. "Craig Cliff – Christchurch City Libraries". Christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. "Compelling writing rewards Nixon". The Press. 5 October 2007. p. A3.
  4. "Winning authors cry the beloved father". Theaustralian.com.au. 22 May 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  5. "Book review: The Mannequin Makers, by Craig Cliff". Listener.co.nz. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  6. The Mannequin Makers. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. Books, Melville House (June 2019). MELVILLE HOUSE UK: THE MANNEQUIN MAKERS » Melville House Books.
  8. "Creatorii de manechine". Editura Univers (in Romanian). Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  9. "Nailing Down the Saint by Craig Cliff". www.penguin.co.nz. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  10. "Trout 16: Contributor details". Trout.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  11. "Craig Cliff – The International Writing Program". Iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  12. "'Bellwethers for the Liquid Life: The Rise of Professional Video Gaming and the People Happy to Sit and Watch' by Craig Cliff". Horoekareading.com. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  13. "The Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand". University of Otago. Retrieved 26 November 2017.