A Man Melting

Creator

Date

2010

Identifier

Central PR9642 C712 M36

Type

Publisher

Auckland: Vintage; with kind permission

Abstract

Robert Burns Fellow 2017: Craig Cliff (b. 1983)

Craig Cliff came to Dunedin with two books under his belt – the novel, The Mannequin Makers (2013), and the story collection, A Man Melting, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in 2011. During his Burns year he worked on a novel that involved two weeks research in Italy; wrote reviews, stories and essays; indulged his interest in recurrent neural networks, collaborating with Lech Szymanski from Otago’s Computer Science Faculty to develop ‘found poetry’ from Dunedin Sound lyrics; and attended a range of seminars and hui. He described his Burns tenure as ‘a blessing’. Cliff currently lives in Wellington where he is putting the finishing touches on his next novel and working for the Ministry of Education.

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Citation

Craig Cliff, “A Man Melting,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 13, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10985.