Ian Middleton

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Ian Middleton (26 October 1928 – 24 October 2007) was a New Zealand novelist, who made a particular markhttp://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/middletonian.html|Book {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192017/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/middletonian.html%7CBook |date=3 March 2016 }} Council entry, Middletonian with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E. Middleton.

Blind, he said this gave him a "special perspective but 'without limitation'", and has been attributed to the "strong metaphoric colour, sensual - often erotic - quality and lush verbal richness of his writing".The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)| Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

A full list of his publications can be seen at the University of Auckland's NZ Literature file {{Cite web |url=http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=114 |title=University of Auckland file |access-date=31 July 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906045933/http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=114 |archive-date=6 September 2012 |url-status=dead }} and more biographical information is at the New Zealand Book Council's website.[http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/middletonian.html Book Council entry, Middletonian]