Profile
One of David Hill’s special gifts is his ability to write about deep moral and ethical questions in a way that young readers enjoy. His knack for understanding how teenagers speak and think is coupled with a funny and laconic style that delights and simultaneously moves his readers.
Selected published works
See Ya Simon, 1992; 1994 Times Educational Supplement Nasen Award; 2002 Gaelyn Gordon Award Right Where It Hurts, 2001; 2003 Esther Glen Medal No Safe Harbour, 2003; Running Hot, 2005; Duet 2007; The River Runs, 2008.
Publishers
Mallinson Rendel
www.mallinsonrendel.co.nz
Biography
David Hill was born in 1942 and spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Napier. He obtained a MA at Victoria University of Wellington and became a high school teacher. He abandoned teaching to concentrate on writing full-time in 1982. Hill is the author of several books for adults as well as many novels, stories and plays for teenagers and young readers. He has been published in Britain, the United States, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Estonia and Slovenia. Much of his work has been recorded by Radio New Zealand and he is a regular reviewer and contributor to magazines and newspapers. Hill was the 2003 Dunedin College of Education children’s writer-in-residence.
Hill says writing gives him great pleasure: “It’s the feeling that you’ve made something. Lots of other people will make much better things than you, but no one will ever make the same. What you’ve done is unique and that’s a marvellous feeling.”