Mister Pip (Jones)

Author Bio 
• Birth—March 23 1955
• Where—Lower Hutt, New Zealand
• Education—B.A. Victoria University
• Awards—Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship;
   Commonwealth's Writers' Prize (Mister Pip).
• Currently—Wellington, New Zealand

Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand author whose novels and collections of stories include the award-winning The Book of Fame, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Paint Your Wife.

He is a graduate of Victoria University. In 1988 he was the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship.

In 1994 he curated an exhibition which illustrated the New Zealand Saturday. This work was a collaboration with photographer Bruce Foster and held at the National Library in Wellington. The work was published as the The Last Saturday and included historical photographs, contemporary ones by Foster and an essay by Jones.

In 2003, a theatrical adaptation of his novel, The Book of Fame was presented at Wellington's Downstage Theatre.

n May 2007, he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book Award for his novel Mister Pip. The novel is set during the Bougainville Civil War of the early 1990s. His novel Mister Pip was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007.

In August 2007 he spent a year in Berlin as beneficiary of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency.

He is the younger brother of property tycoon Bob Jones. (From the publisher and Wikipedia.)