Martin Edmond
{{Short description|New Zealand author and screenplay writer}}
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Martin Edmond (born 1952 in Ohakune) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. He is the son of writer Lauris Edmond.
Biography
Edmond studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington. He spent a year working as a junior lecturer before joining avant garde theatre group Red Mole, with whom he spent five years as a writer and actor. He has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1981. He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University with his dissertation on Australian artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira.{{Cite web|date=2011-08-23|title=Walking with McCahon|url=https://www.thebigidea.nz/news/whats-on-show-reviews/2011/aug/91273-walking-with-mccahon|access-date=2020-11-10|website=The Big Idea|language=en}}
Writing career
Edmond has written screenplays for several New Zealand feature films, including Illustrious Energy (1987);{{cite web | url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/illustrious-energy-1988 | title=Illustrious Energy Film (10:10 Excerpts) – 1988 | publisher=NZ On Screen | access-date=July 13, 2019}} The Footstep Man (1991) and Terra Nova (1996).
Edmond has written over 20 books. They include Streets of Music (1980), Houses, Days, Skies (1988), The Autobiography of My Father (1992), and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont (1999). The Autobiography of My Father was nominated for a 1993 Wattie's Book Award, and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont was a finalist in the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Dark Night (2011) is a partial Colin McCahon biography, and was successful in Australia. The Dreaming Land (2015) is a personal tale of a 1950s and 60s childhood in New Zealand.{{cite web | url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/73090167/ | title=Martin Edmond: dreaming and remembering | publisher=Stuff.co.nz | date=October 27, 2015 | access-date=July 13, 2019 | author=Matthews, Philip }} His 2017 book The Expatriates (Bridget Williams Books, {{ISBN|978-19885-33179}}) is a history of four extraordinary New Zealanders: Harold Williams, Ronald Syme, John Platts-Mills, and Joe Trapp; Edmond used research material passed on by the late James McNeish.{{cite web | url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1711/S00169/new-book-by-martin-edmond-the-expatriates.htm | title=New Book by Martin Edmond - 'The Expatriates' (Press Release: Bridget Williams Books) | publisher=Scoop News | date=9 November 2017 | access-date=July 13, 2019}} Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days 1974-1980 about Edmond's experiences with Red Mole was published in 2020{{Cite book|last=Edmond|first=Martin|title=Bus Stops on the Moon|date=2020|publisher=Otago University Press|isbn=978-1-988592-51-0|oclc=1158200202}} and was longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for general nonfiction.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-01-28|title=Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/28/161930/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-longlists-announced/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
Edmond was commissioned to write a history of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography which was published in 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-08 |title=From McSweeney the gallery cat to Michael Laws: Martin Edmond's biography of a gallery |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2018963370/from-mcsweeney-the-gallery-cat-to-michael-laws-martin-edmond-s-biography-of-a-gallery |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}{{Cite book |last=Edmond |first=Martin |title=Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography |publisher=Massey University Press |year=2024 |isbn=9781991016652}}
Awards and honours
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- 2004 Landfall Essay Competition
- 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Award in Biography for Chronicle of the Unsung{{cite web | url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners/?year=2005 | title=Past Winners: Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005 | publisher=New Zealand Book Awards Trust | access-date=July 13, 2019}}
- 2013 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement{{cite web |url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/award-winners/prime-minister-s-awards-for-literary-achievement |title=Previous winners |publisher=Creative New Zealand |access-date=October 24, 2013}}
- 2015 Michael King Writers Fellowship
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|249466}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909110836/http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/the-resurrection-of-philip-clairmont.cfm Review] of The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont and biographical notes
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Category:New Zealand screenwriters
Category:New Zealand male screenwriters
Category:New Zealand emigrants to Australia
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:21st-century New Zealand writers
Category:20th-century New Zealand writers
Category:20th-century New Zealand male writers
Category:People educated at Kuranui College
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