Stephen Daisley

Stephen Daisley is a New Zealand novelist who won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Traitor. He was born in New Zealand in 1955, and spent five years in the New Zealand army before working as a sheep herder, bush cutter, truck driver, construction worker and bartender. He now lives in Perth, Western Australia. He won the top literary honor of the nation, the prestigious $50,000 Ockham New Zealand Book Award, 2016, for his second novel Coming Rain.[1]

• 2016 winner Ockham New Zealand Book Award — Fiction - Coming Rain
• 2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction - Traitor
• 2011 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book - Traitor
• 2011 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - Traitor
• 2011 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award for New Writing - Traitor
• 2011 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction - Traitor

• Amanda Curtin on Looking Up/Looking Down

• "2, 2 and 2: Stephen Daisley Talks about Coming Rain" Looking Up/Looking Down