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Owen Marshall Jones CNZM (born 17 August 1941), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist.

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Early life and family

Marshall was born in Te Kūiti on 17 August 1941.^[1] 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.^[2]

Marshall is the older half-brother of Rhys Jones.^[3]

Awards and honours

In 1985 and 1988, Marshall received the Lilian Ida Smith Award (Fiction).^[4] In the 2000 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature,^[5] 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.^[6] In 2013, he was the winner of the fiction section of the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement^[7]

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 Harissa Bay. Auckland: Vintage, 2022. (Short stories)

References

^ Lambert, Max (1991) [1908]. Who's Who in New Zealand (12 ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 330. ISBN 0790001306.
^ "Marshall, Owen". New Zealand Book Council. January 2017. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
^ Masters, Catherine (11 December 2010). "From toy soldiers to the real deal". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
^ "Lilian Ida Smith Award Recipients" (PDF). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^ "New Year honours list 2000". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
^ "Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee honours list 2012". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 24 October 2013.