Nigel Cox (author)

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Nigel Cox
museum director
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Nigel Cox (13 January 1951 – 28 July 2006) was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006.

Childhood and early career

Born in 1951 in Pahiatua, Cox grew up in the

Victoria University Press website, "His early working life reads like an author trying to find his way: advertising account executive, assembly line worker at Ford, deck hand, coalman, door-to-door turkey salesman, driver." Later, between 1977 and 1993, he worked as a bookseller in Auckland and Wellington.[1]

First novels

His first two novels, Waiting for Einstein (1984) and

Dirty Work (1987) were both written while he was working in bookstores in Wellington and Auckland. Both these novels have Wellington
settings.

For Dirty Work, Cox was awarded the

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[1] He published a number of articles during this time, but did not produce any new novels.[2]

2000–2006

As of the publication of Skylark Lounge in 2000, Cox had not published a new novel since Dirty Work, thirteen years previously.[1] The same year, he left New Zealand to join Ken Gorbey, his colleague at Te Papa, on the project team at the Jewish Museum Berlin. In 2001 he became the museum's Head of Exhibitions and Communications.[3]

While in

Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2005, where it was judged runner-up, despite being embroiled in copyright
controversy in the United States.

Cox returned to New Zealand in March 2005, rejoining Te Papa as Director – Experience.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards
.

In 2006, Dirty Work was republished by

Victoria University Press
.

On 28 July 2006, just four days after attending the

Montana New Zealand Book Awards where he was the Fiction runner-up, he died due to cancer which he had had for some time.[citation needed
] He was working on the final draft of a sixth novel, The Cowboy Dog, when he died. It was published in November 2006.

Novels

See also

  • Victoria University Press

References

  1. ^
    Victoria University Press
    online bookshop. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  2. New Zealand Book Council. Archived from the original
    on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  3. OCLC 1139651808.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

External links
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