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. He fronted a major Brisbane tourism campaign.Media Release: Nick Earls tells Brisbane's story through new campaign , Brisbane Marketing, 20 March 2002.
Biography Earls was born on 8 October 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland.Author: Nick Earls, Penguin Group 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. He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland and worked as a GP before turning to writing.Silkstone, Dan: Mature face of Aussie lad lit, The Age, 15 July 2006.
Career Earls has been compared to Nick Hornby.Wyndham, Susan: The Hot Seat: Nick Earls, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 September 2006. Zigzag Street, his second 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 the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers in 2000. 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.Sunny Garden – The Official Nick Earls Website. Sunny Garden – The Official Nick Earls Website. 23 April 2007.
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.
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
Year Work Notes2021Empiresnovel 2017 Wisdom Tree novella series 2015 New Boy novel 2014 Analogue Men novel 2012 Welcome to Normal short stories 2011 The Fix novel 2009 The True Story of Butterfish novel 2007 Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight young adult novel, co-written with Rebecca Sparrow A revealed life: Australian writers and their journeys in memoir collection of memoirs from Australian writers, including Nick Earls, edited by Julianne Schultz 2006 Monica Bloom young adult novel Making waves: 10 years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival collection of short works by Australian authors, including Nick Earls, edited by Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith and Fay Knight 2004 The Thompson Gunner novel 2003 Kid's Night In edited by Jessica Adams, Juliet Partridge and Nick Earls 2002 Making Laws for Clouds young adult novel 2001 World of Chickens novel 2000 Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3 collection of short stories by Australian authors including Nick Earls Perfect Skin novel 1999 48 Shades of Brown young adult novel 1998 Bachelor Kisses novel. Set in a house in Bayliss Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. There Must Be Lions: Stories About Mental Illness with Sonya Hartnett and Heide Seaman, features Nick Earl's short story There Must Be Lions The Gift of Story edited by Marion Halligan and Rosanne Fitzgibbon, features Nick Earls' short story Plaza 1996 Zigzag Street novel. Set in a house addressed as 34 Zigzag Street, Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia. After January young adult novel Smashed: Australian drinking stories collection, edited by Matthew Condon and Richard Lawson, includes Nick Earls' short story GreenOriginal Sin edited by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Box-shaped HeartSporting Declaration edited by Manfred Jurgensen, includes Nick Earls' short story PE Blur: Stories by young Australian writers edited by James Bradley, includes Nick Earls' short story Head games 1995 Paradise To Paranoia: New Queensland Writing edited by Nigel Krauth and Robyn Sheehan, includes Nick Earls' short story Meanwhile, thirty-eight above Charlotte Picador New Writing 3 edited by Drusilla Modjeska and Beth Yahp, includes Nick Earls' short story The Goatflap brothers and the house of names Nightmares in Paradise compiled by Robyn Sheahan, includes Nick Earls' short story Juliet
For children
Series: Word Hunters
Short fiction TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedMoving1993 Issue titled Queensland, words and all.Dog 1, Dog 21993 Issue titled Queensland, words and all.
Collections
Poetry
Critical studies and reviews Review of The fix. Introduction to a reissue of The Delinquents by Criena Rohan, 2014 Retrieved 17 October 2015
References
External links Nick Earls – the official Nick Earls web site The University of Queensland – 2006 Alumnus of the Year Stories from the Q150 Steam Train – Nick Earls by Nick Earls, a 3 min 56 sec video, published by State Library of Queensland as part of Storylines:Q150 digital stories