Nick Earls | |
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Born | Nicholas Francis Ward Earls 8 October 1963 Newtownards, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
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Nicholas Francis Ward Earls (born 8 October 1963) is a novelist from Brisbane, Australia, who writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life. The majority of his novels are set in his home town of Brisbane. He fronted a major Brisbane tourism campaign. [1]
Earls was born on 8 October 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. [2] He emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister at the age of nine. Living in Brisbane, he was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School there. [3] He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland and worked as a GP before turning to writing. [4]
Earls has been compared to Nick Hornby. [5] Zigzag Street, his second novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998 [6] (sharing with Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard). His young-adult novel, 48 Shades of Brown , won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers in 2000. [7] Several of his novels (After January and 48 Shades of Brown) have been adapted for theatre, and 48 Shades of Brown was adapted into a film entitled 48 Shades , released in August 2006. Earls has also written other novels, including Bachelor Kisses (which borrows its title from a song by Brisbane band The Go-Betweens), Perfect Skin, World of Chickens, The Thompson Gunner, and young adult novels After January, and Making Laws for Clouds. [8]
Earls has also contributed to the four best-selling anthologies in the Girls' Night In series as well as Kids' Night In and Kids' Night in 2 as editor. His most recent novels are Welcome to Normal, a collection of original short stories, The True Story of Butterfish, about a former rock star re-adjusting to mundane life in the Brisbane suburbs, and Monica Bloom, based on his own adolescent experience of an ill-fated crush. [4]
Several of his books have been adapted for the stage by Brisbane's La Boite Theatre Company.
He is referenced in the film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane .
Year | Work | Notes | |
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2021 | Empires | novel | |
2017 | Wisdom Tree | novella series | |
2015 | New Boy | novel | |
2014 | Analogue Men | novel | |
2012 | Welcome to Normal | short stories | |
2011 | The Fix | novel | |
2009 | The True Story of Butterfish | novel | |
2007 | Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight | young adult novel, co-written with Rebecca Sparrow | |
A revealed life: Australian writers and their journeys in memoir | collection of memoirs from Australian writers, including Nick Earls, edited by Julianne Schultz | ||
2006 | Monica Bloom | young adult novel | |
Making waves: 10 years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival | collection of short works by Australian authors, including Nick Earls, edited by Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith and Fay Knight | ||
2004 | The Thompson Gunner | novel | |
2003 | Kid's Night In | edited by Jessica Adams, Juliet Partridge and Nick Earls | |
2002 | Making Laws for Clouds | young adult novel | |
2001 | World of Chickens | novel | |
2000 | Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3 | collection of short stories by Australian authors including Nick Earls | |
Perfect Skin | novel | ||
1999 | 48 Shades of Brown | young adult novel | |
1998 | Bachelor Kisses | novel. Set in a house in Bayliss Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. [9] | |
There Must Be Lions: Stories About Mental Illness | with Sonya Hartnett and Heide Seaman, features Nick Earl's short story There Must Be Lions | ||
The Gift of Story | edited by Marion Halligan and Rosanne Fitzgibbon, features Nick Earls' short story Plaza | ||
1996 | Zigzag Street | novel. Set in a house addressed as 34 Zigzag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia. [10] | |
After January | young adult novel | ||
Smashed: Australian drinking stories | collection, edited by Matthew Condon and Richard Lawson, includes Nick Earls' short story Green | ||
Original Sin | edited by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Box-shaped Heart | ||
Sporting Declaration | edited by Manfred Jurgensen, includes Nick Earls' short story PE | ||
Blur: Stories by young Australian writers | edited by James Bradley, includes Nick Earls' short story Head games | ||
1995 | Paradise To Paranoia: New Queensland Writing | edited by Nigel Krauth and Robyn Sheehan, includes Nick Earls' short story Meanwhile, thirty-eight above Charlotte | |
Picador New Writing 3 | edited by Drusilla Modjeska and Beth Yahp, includes Nick Earls' short story The Goatflap brothers and the house of names | ||
Nightmares in Paradise | compiled by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Juliet | ||
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Moving | 1993 | Earls, Nick (1993). "Moving". Outrider: A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia. 10: 49–58. Issue titled Queensland, words and all. | Earls, Nick (1999). Headgames. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin. pp. 233–246. |
Dog 1, Dog 2 | 1993 | Earls, Nick (1993). "Dog 1, Dog 2". Outrider: A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia. 10: 59–64. Issue titled Queensland, words and all. |
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