Brian FALKNER

Brian FALKNER
  • Oceania
  • Australia and New Zealand
  • New Zealand
English

Brian FALKNER began his career in journalism and advertising, winning several national and international awards for his copywriting. He published his first junior fiction novel, Henry and the Flea, in 2003, with the debut nominated for the Esther Glen Medal and listed as a notable book by the Children’s Literature Foundation of New Zealand (2004). Since then, Falkner has published two more novels in the youth genre: The Real Thing (2004) and The Super Freak (2005). He lives in New Zealand, where he is an advocate for children’s literacy. His latest novel is called The Tomorrow Code. He participates courtesy of Creative New Zealand.

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Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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