13 Facts About Carl Nixon

Carl Nixon was born on 1967 and is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright.

Carl Nixon has said that he had remedial reading lessons as a child and "didn't really get into books until I was ten or so".

In 1992, Carl Nixon graduated with a master's degree in religious studies from the University of Canterbury.

Carl Nixon briefly taught secondary school English before leaving to teach in Japan for two years.

Carl Nixon was one of the founding members of The Court Jesters, an improvisation troupe at the Court Theatre in Christchurch, in 1989.

Carl Nixon began his writing career writing children's plays for the Court Theatre.

Carl Nixon wrote a young adult novel, Guardians of Mother Earth, published in December 1996.

Carl Nixon began writing for adults in 1997, and won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition, for "My Father Running with a Dead Boy" in 1997 and "Weight" in 1999.

Carl Nixon was a runner up in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition in 1999 and won the premier prize in 2007.

Carl Nixon subsequently published two further novels, Settlers' Creek and The Virgin and the Whale.

Carl Nixon has written a number of original plays including Mathew, Mark, Luke and Joanne, The Birthday Boy and The Raft, which have been performed throughout New Zealand.

In 2017 Carl Nixon was the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, one of New Zealand's most prestigious literary fellowships.

Carl Nixon spent around three months in 2018 living and writing in Menton, France at the Villa Isola Bella, where Katherine Mansfield herself lived and worked, and was able to complete the first draft of his next novel, The Tally Stick.