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Owen Marshall is widely and properly regarded as New Zealand’s finest exponent of the short story. He is also a novelist, and teacher. Owen was born in Te Kuiti in 1941.

The three stooges: Owen Marshall on his mates

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Today Owen Marshall, Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner release a big hardback book called Landmarks. A braiding of essays, paintings and poems, it’s a companion title to the trio’s Timeless Land, published in 1995. It’s a tribute to place, but it’s also about low-key, enduring friendship, as Marshall explains.  In her emails to us, Harriet … Read more

Book of the year, apparently: Owen Marshall contemplates the Stephen Daisley novel

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Stephen Daisley will speak in Christchurch and Dunedin this weekend about his novel Coming Rain, which won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards book of the year. But is it actually any good? Owen Marshall slips on his gown and his powdered wig, and passes judgment. The strongest and best expressed relationships in Stephen Daisley’s award-winning … Read more