Nick Earls

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, which has given him a high local profile. He fronted a major Brisbane tourism campaign.[1]

Nick Earls
BornNicholas Francis Ward Earls
(1963-10-08) 8 October 1963
Newtownards, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAustralian
Website
nickearls.wordpress.com

Biography

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]

Career

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.

Bibliography
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YearWorkNotes
2017Wisdom Treenovella series
2014Analogue Mennovel
2012Welcome to Normalshort stories
2009The True Story of Butterfishnovel
2007Joel and Cat Set the Story Straightyoung adult novel, co-written with Rebecca Sparrow
A revealed life : Australian writers and their journeys in memoircollection of memoirs from Australian writers, including Nick Earls, edited by Julianne Schultz
2006Monica Bloomyoung adult novel
Making waves : 10 years of the Byron Bay Writers Festivalcollection of short works by Australian authors, including Nick Earls, edited by Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith and Fay Knight
2004The Thompson Gunnernovel
2003Kid's Night Inedited by Jessica Adams, Juliet Partridge and Nick Earls
2002Making Laws for Cloudsyoung adult novel
2001World of Chickensnovel
2000Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3collection of short stories by Australian authors including Nick Earls
Perfect Skinnovel
199948 Shades of Brownyoung adult novel
1998Bachelor Kissesnovel. Set in a house in Bayliss Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.[9]
There Must Be Lions: Stories About Mental Illnesswith Sonya Hartnett and Heide Seaman, features Nick Earl's short story There Must Be Lions
The Gift of Storyedited by Marion Halligan and Rosanne Fitzgibbon, features Nick Earls' short story Plaza
1996Zigzag Streetnovel. Set in a house addressed as 34 Zigzag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia.[10]
After Januaryyoung adult novel
Smashed: Australian drinking storiescollection, edited by Matthew Condon and Richard Lawson, includes Nick Earls' short story Green
Original Sinedited by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Box-shaped Heart
Sporting Declarationedited by Manfred Jurgensen, includes Nick Earls' short story PE
Blur: Stories by young Australian writersedited by James Bradley, includes Nick Earls' short story Head games
1995Paradise To Paranoia: New Queensland Writingedited by Nigel Krauth and Robyn Sheehan, includes Nick Earls' short story Meanwhile, thirty-eight above Charlotte
Picador New Writing 3edited by Drusilla Modjeska and Beth Yahp, includes Nick Earls' short story The Goatflap brothers and the house of names
Nightmares In Paradisecompiled by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Juliet

Novels
  • Earls, Nick (2011). The fix. North Sydney, NSW: Vintage.

For children
Series: Word Hunters
  1. Earls, Nick; Whidborne, Terry (2012). The curious dictionary. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.

Short fiction
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
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.
  • Earls, Nick (1999). Headgames. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin. pp. 73–84.
  • Kaminsky, Leah, ed. (2010). The pen and the stethoscope. Carlton North, Vic: Scribe. pp. 156–164.

Collections
  • Earls, Nick (1992). Passion. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.
  • — (1999). Headgames. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin.
  • — (2012). Welcome to Normal. North Sydney, NSW: Vintage.

Poetry
  • Earls, Nick (1985). Near and far away. Clayfield, Qld: Boolarong.

Critical studies and reviews
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References
  1. Media Release: Nick Earls tells Brisbane's story through new campaign Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Brisbane Marketing, 20 March 2002.
  2. Author: Nick Earls, Penguin Group
  3. Mason, James (2011). Churchie: The Centenary Register. Brisbane, Australia: The Anglican Church Grammar School. ISBN 978-0-646-55807-3.
  4. Silkstone, Dan: Mature face of Aussie lad lit, The Age, 15 July 2006.
  5. Wyndham, Susan: The Hot Seat: Nick Earls, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 2006.
  6. "The Betty Trask Prizes and Awards:Past Winners". The Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. Sunny Garden - The Official Nick Earls Website. 23 April 2007.
  9. Earls, Nick (1998). Bachelor Kisses. Ringwood, VIC: Viking. p. 20. ISBN 0670877859.
  10. Earls, Nick (1996). Zigzag Street. Moorebank, NSW: Anchor. p. 104. ISBN 0868246786.
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