Damien Wilkins
Damien Wilkins is a prolific New Zealand writer whose work spans fiction, short stories, novels, and poetry.
His writing has been celebrated as "exuberant and evocative, subtle and exact," and has been published in New Zealand, the USA, and the UK. His debut novel, The Miserables, won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1994.
He has received a Whiting Writers' Award and an Arts Foundation Laureate Award, and has been longlisted three times for the Dublin Literary Award.
He is a professor and Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
