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Nick earls author biography
Nick Earls
Australian novelist
Nicholas Francis Ward Earls (born 8 October 1963) is a novelist from Brisbane, Australia, who writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life.
The majority of his novels are set in his home town of Brisbane. He fronted a major Brisbane tourism campaign.[1]
Biography
Earls was born on 8 October 1963 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland.[2] He emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister at the age of nine.
Living in Brisbane, he was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School there.[3] He completed a medical degree at the University of Queensland and worked as a GP before turning to writing.[4]
Career
Earls has been compared to Nick Hornby.[5]Zigzag Street, his second novel, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998[6] (sharing with Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard).
His young-adult novel, 48 Shades of Brown, won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book o