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Craig Cliff

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Craig Cliff’s debut collection of short stories, A MAN MELTING, was published in July 2010. It was named as one of the best books of 2010 by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star Times, and went on to win the overall Best First Book in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize. According to the judges, A MAN MELTING “is of the moment, and is rightly at home on a global platform. Cliff is a talent to watch and set to take the literary world by storm."

Craig wrote a column for the Dominion Post newspaper from 2010-2014 about his double life as a writer and a public servant (and, later, as a father).

THE MANNEQUIN MAKERS, a dark and wide-ranging historical novel, was published in August 2013. According to the New Zealand Listener, "it’s tremend
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I'm one of the judges for the fiction section for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which means I need to read every novel and short story collection published in 2025 that is submitted for the awards. So far I've received two boxes of books (33 books in total) and there's at least one more box to come later in the year. I'd read three

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The Mannequin Makers

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A Man Melting

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Nailing Down the Saint

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Another Language

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Facing Galapagos

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