Carl Shuker

Carl Shuker is the author of four novels. The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), an historical/thriller/love story that explores the darker side of Tokyo at the turn of the century; The Lazy Boys (Counterpoint, 2006) explores a nihilistic generation within a NZ setting; Three Novellas for a Novel (Mansfield Road Press, 2011), is an intertwined set of horror stories set in near-future Tokyo, London and Cannes, and Anti Lebanon (Counterpoint, 2013), a cross-genre political thriller and vampire story set in Beirut and Syria. ‘It’s difficult to convey here the thrill of Shuker’s writing, with its up-to-the-minute feel, its endless audacity … with its defiant difficulty, sly ambition and writing more than sharp enough to live up to its own hype’ – Listener

In 2006 Carl’s The Method Actors was winner of the Prize in Modern Letters, then the world’s richest prize for an emerging author. ‘Brash and fearless,’ wrote the New York Times, ‘a self-consciously postmodern challenge to our perceived reality and its fictional depiction’. ‘A mesmerizing opus…a serious accomplishment’. – The AV Club 

A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, Carl has lived in Tokyo and London, where he was an editor at the BMJ for seven years. He has participated in festivals in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and was Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University in 2013.

Carl currently lives in Wellington with his wife, novelist and poet Anna Smaill, and their daughter.

Twitter - @CarlShuker

Represented by: Imogen Pelham

Titles
A Mistake (VUP, 2019)
Anti Lebanon (Counterpoint, 2013)
Three Novellas for a Novel (Mansfield Road Press, 2011)
The Lazy Boys (Counterpoint, 2006)
The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard 2005)