Owen Marshall
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Owen Marshall Jones Template:Post-nominals (born 17 August 1941), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist.
Early life and family
Marshall was born in Te Kūiti on 17 August 1941.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was the third of nine children; his father was a Methodist minister, and his mother (whose maiden name was Marshall) died when he was two. His father remarried about three years later and went on to have a further six children. The family lived in Blenheim and Timaru, and Marshall was educated at Timaru Boys' High School. He graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Arts degree in English in 1964, and taught at Waitaki Boys' High School for 25 years before becoming a full-time author.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Marshall is the older half-brother of Rhys Jones.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Awards and honours
In 1985 and 1988, Marshall received the Lilian Ida Smith Award (Fiction).<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2000 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, he was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to literature.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013, he was the winner of the fiction section of the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Works
- Supper Waltz Wilson, and Other New Zealand Stories. Christchurch : Pegasus, 1979.
- The Master of Big Jingles & Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1982.
- The Day Hemingway Died, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1984.
- The Lynx Hunter, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1987.
- An indirect geography [radio narrative] by Owen Marshall. 1990.
- The Divided World : Selected Stories. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1989.
- Tomorrow We Save the Orphans : Fiction. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1992.
- The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories: McIndoe Press, 1993.
- Timeless Land. Painter, Grahame Sydney; poet, Brian Turner; writer, Owen Marshall; with an introduction by Sam Neill. Dunedin : Longacre Press, 1995.
- The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories. Auckland : Random House, 1997.
- Harlequin Rex. Auckland: Vintage, 1999. (Novel)
- When Gravity Snaps. Auckland: Vintage, 2002. (Short stories)
- The Larnachs. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Novel, based on events in the life of William Larnach)
- Living as a Moon. Auckland: Vintage, 2011. (Short stories)
- Love as a Stranger. Auckland: Vintage, 2016. (Novel)
- Pearly Gates. Auckland: Vintage, 2019. (Novel)
- Return to Harikoa Bay. Auckland: Vintage, 2022. (Short stories)
- New Stories. Auckland: Penguin, 2024. (Short stories)
Two of Marshall's short stories have been turned into feature films. Coming Home in the Dark (2021) is a psychological thriller directed by James Ashcroft.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Horror film, The Rule of Jenny Pen, also directed by Ashcroft, was released in 2024.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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- 1941 births
- Living people
- New Zealand male novelists
- University of Canterbury alumni
- Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- 20th-century New Zealand novelists
- New Zealand male short story writers
- People from Te Kūiti
- 20th-century New Zealand short story writers
- 20th-century New Zealand male writers
- New Zealand schoolteachers
- People educated at Timaru Boys' High School