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The
2007 Award
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The Fossil Pits by Tim Corballis
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| The story of Walter Mantell's 1848 journey down the east coast of the South Island, to set aside reserves for Ngai Tahu within a large block purchased by the government, is told in counterpoint with a modern woman's very different story of violence on a South Island farm. This absorbing novel about different ways of seeing the land, and about the deals we make with each other in politics and in love, is finely observed and evocative. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Described by Iain Sharp in the Sunday Star Times as "one of the bright young hopes of local literature", Tim Corballis was born in Montreal, Canada in 1971, and has been living in New Zealand since 1977, mostly in Auckland but recently in Dunedin and Wellington. He has studied mathematics and philosophy at Auckland University, and has published short fiction in Sport, Landfall and Emily Perkins' anthology The Picnic Virgin (VUP 1999). He
completed Bill Manhire's MA in Creative Writing in 2000, and Below, his
first novel, won the Adam Foundation Prize for best book of that year.
Measurement, Tim's second novel, was published to acclaim in 2002. |
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