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Damien Wilkins, 2007

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Damien Wilkins, 2007

Damien Wilkins is a Wellington-based novelist and university teacher. His short stories were published in literary periodicals in the 1980s and his first novel, The miserables, appeared in 1993 and won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction the following year. 

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Lydia Wevers, Fiction – Contemporary fiction, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41949/damien-wilkins-2007 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Lydia Wevers, published 20 June 2013, updated 1 August 2015.