Nick Earls
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Nick Earls (born 1963) is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes heart-felt, humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby. The majority of Earls' novels are set in his hometown of Brisbane, a fact which lead to his high local profile, and his fronting of a major Brisbane tourism campaign.
[edit] Biography
Nick moved to Australia from Northern Ireland in 1972 with his parents and sister.
[edit] Career
Zigzag Street, his first novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998 (sharing with Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard). His young-adult novel 48 Shades of Brown won a CBC Book of the Year Award. Several of his novels have been adapted for theatre, and 48 Shades of Brown has been adapted into a film entitled 48 Shades, released in August 2006. Nick 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 novel is "Monica Bloom", based on his own adolescent experience of an ill-fated crush. It was only fairly recently that he reached the success point of having had more words published than rejected.
