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Lloyd Jones is well known for his numerous novels including Mister Pip which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker.
The Book of Fame was the winner of the Tasmania Pacific Prize for Fiction; while Hand Me Down World was shortlisted for the Berlin International Prize for Literature.
He is a New Zealand Arts laureate and recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature.
Now he's turned to poetry with The Empty Grandstand, in which he tells snippets of his life story: from a breathtaking climb as a seven year old to the top of a very high grandstand with his father, to destroying class ukeleles in a music lesson, to travelling the world.
Lloyd Jones joins Kathryn from Melbourne.