Carl Shuker Photo: Ebony Lamb Photography
Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and lives in Wellington. He's the author of five novels - The Method Actors, winner of the Prize in Modern Letters in 2006; The Lazy Boys; Three Novellas for a Novel and Anti Lebanon.
His latest work is A Mistake, which tells the story of a young female surgeon at Wellington Regional Hospital, and the reverberations of her workplace error.
Carl Shuker will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, details here.
This interview features discussion of suicide.
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