Tunes for Bears to Dance To

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

The Shaping of a New Zealand Writer

Owen Marshall

Announcing the release of this new BWB Text by Owen Marshall, available as an e-book from the BWB website and global e-bookstores.

About Tunes for Bears to Dance To

I became aware of the fallibility of the real, that the splendidly detailed objective world of sound and colours, shapes and textures was not completely opaque, and that beneath it could be glimpsed the shimmer of things of great horror and ineffable joy.

He is one of New Zealand’s finest regional writers and a master of the short story, but despite his many accolades Owen Marshall continues to write under an assumed name.

In Tunes for Bears to Dance To Marshall reflects at length on his writing career, on the forces that have shaped him as a writer, on his intense admiration for Janet Frame and on his decision to concentrate on the short story form.

About the author

Owen Marshall has written, or edited, over twenty-five books. He has held fellowships at the Universities of Canterbury and Otago, and in Menton, France. In 2000 he received the ONZM and in the same year his novel Harlequin Rex won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury, which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 2002. He was awarded the CNZM in 2012 for services to literature, and in 2013 received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction.

About BWB Texts

BWB Texts are short books on big subjects. New BWB Texts are being released in digital and print into 2015 and beyond. Recent Texts includeBombing the Rainbow Warrior by Michael King,Samoa mo Samoa by Michael Field, Barefoot Yearsby Martin Edmond, and The Piketty Phenomenon.

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