Nine Lives (essays)
Published by Upstart Press on November 11, 2021
Greg McGee
ANZL Member
Photo credit: Jim Tannock
Greg McGee’s first play, Foreskin’s Lament (1981), is one of New Zealand’s most successful and drew on rugby culture of the time to comment on national values. As crime writer Alix Bosco, Greg is the author of the novel Cut and Run (2009), winner of the 2010 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime, and Slaughter Falls (2010). He has won several TV awards, including Best Drama Writer for two of his political documentary dramas: Erebus: the Aftermath (1987), and Fallout (1994).
In 2012 he produced two new books: a biography of All Black Captain Ritchie McCaw and a novel, Love & Money. He was awarded the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (2013) where he wrote The Antipodeans (Upstart, 2015) which was longlisted for the 2016 Ockham Award for fiction.
Links
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page
Penguin Books author page
Upstart Press author page
NZ OnScreen biography (includes plays/films)
Playmarket playwright page (with links to plays)
Radio New Zealand review of The Antipodeans (Aug, 2015)
BookNotes Unbound interview (July, 2015)
Radio New Zealand interview regarding The Antipodeans (July, 2015)
NZ Herald review of The Antipodeans (July, 2015)
Radio New Zealand interview regarding Love and Money (March, 2012)
NZ Herald interview (Oct, 2012)
Sunday Star Times interview regarding Alix Bosco (Aug, 2011)
New releases by Greg McGee
Bibliography: Greg McGee
Fiction
As Greg McGee:
Necessary Secrets (Upstart, 2019)
The Antipodeans (Upstart, 2015)
Brokenwood Mysteries, 2014.
Love and Money (Penguin Random House, 2012)
Me & Robert McKee (Playpress, 2011)
As Alix Bosco:
Slaughter Falls (crime novel, Penguin, 2010)
Cut and Run (crime novel, Penguin, 2009)
Creative Nonfiction
Tall Tales (Some True): memoirs of an unlikely writer (Penguin Random House, 2008)
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