Lloyd Jones is a writer based in New Zealand and Melbourne.  His work has been translated into many languages. He has written across all genres – novels, short stories, memoir, and poetry, and nonfiction. His novels include The Book of Fame, Mister Pip, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for The Booker Prize,  The Cage and Hand me down world.  His most recent book is a poetry collection, The Empty Grandstand.  His memoir, A History of Silence, wove the devastating Christchurch earthquake (2011) into an exploration of mistaken ideas about city and family foundations.