Owen Marshall Author

Born in Te Kuiti in 1941, Owen Marshall is known most widely for his short stories, but is also the author of three novels, one of which, Harlequin Rex, won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and a poetry collection, Occasional: Fifty Poems, published in 2004. He has also edited a number of collections. Marshall has held fellowships at Canterbury and Otago universities and in Menton, France. In 2000 he received the ONZM for Services to Fiction and in 2002 was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Canterbury, where he is also an adjunct professor.