Patrick EvansPatrick Evans

Patrick Evans lectured in New Zealand literature at the University of Canterbury from 1970-2015. He has published two literary histories, four novels and a number of plays performed in New Zealand and Australia. His first novel Being Eaten Alive is visible in a bookshelf behind Michael Caine's shoulder in the film Educating Rita (1983), and may therefore be thought to have been filmed.

Books: “We Liked Janet Frame Til We Read Her” – An Essay on Why a New Zealand Writer Has Never Won the Nobel Prize for Literature

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An essay by Patrick Evans to mark his new novel The Back of His Head, which imagines that “a complete and utter prick” has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. ‘No entry to all vehicles, writer at work’ – the sign in the Jerusalem street the writer known to the West as SY Agnon lived … Read more