Lloyd Jones

LLOYD JONES was born in New Zealand in 1955. His bestselling novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His earlier novels (now republished by Vintage Canada) include The Book of Fame --which won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize--Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Biografi. Jones lives in Wellington.