Martin EdmondMartin Edmond

Martin Edmond is the author of wild, vivid, singular books about artists Philip Clairmont and Colin McCahon. He performed alongside Alan Brunton in the legendary Red Mole and was awarded the Prime Minister’s award for literature in 2013. Martin was born in Ohakune in 1952.

The Monday Extract: A rogue’s gallery of ‘fatal New Zealanders’

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The high priest of New Zealand non-fiction, Martin Edmond, reveals the curious genesis of his latest book. One day in the summer of 2013 I received a letter from James McNeish. He said he had a proposition to put to me – but that I would have to go to Wellington to find out what … Read more