Craig Harrison
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Craig Harrison is a retired lecturer, author, playwright, and scriptwriter probably best known for novel The Quiet Earth
. Harrison's output has ranged widely, from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand.
End of the world tale The Quiet Earth
was shortlisted for New Zealand Book of the year in 1982. It also inspired the acclaimed 1985 film of the same name
, directed by Geoff Murphy
, which won some rave reviews in the United States. Harrison also wrote 1991's Grievous Bodily, a comical novel in which two inept university lecturers stumble upon a briefcase containing large quantities of stolen cash. Many chases and some exploding food items follow.
Harrison's television work includes writing 1978 culture-clash comedy Joe and Koro. The show's basic concept - the friendship between an English-born schoolteacher and a Māori - has a convoluted history, the main characters having appeared in Harrison's awardwinning radio play Ground Level, two different iterations of a stageplay, and a novel published in the early 1980s.
The Quiet Earth
The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...
. Harrison's output has ranged widely, from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand.
End of the world tale The Quiet Earth
The Quiet Earth
The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...
was shortlisted for New Zealand Book of the year in 1982. It also inspired the acclaimed 1985 film of the same name
The Quiet Earth (film)
The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison...
, directed by Geoff Murphy
Geoff Murphy
Geoff Murphy is a successful New Zealand filmmaker best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s....
, which won some rave reviews in the United States. Harrison also wrote 1991's Grievous Bodily, a comical novel in which two inept university lecturers stumble upon a briefcase containing large quantities of stolen cash. Many chases and some exploding food items follow.
Harrison's television work includes writing 1978 culture-clash comedy Joe and Koro. The show's basic concept - the friendship between an English-born schoolteacher and a Māori - has a convoluted history, the main characters having appeared in Harrison's awardwinning radio play Ground Level, two different iterations of a stageplay, and a novel published in the early 1980s.
Novels
- Broken October (1976)
- The Quiet EarthThe Quiet EarthThe Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...
(1981) - Days of Starlight (1988)
- Grievous Bodily (1991)
- The Dumpster Saga (2007)
Plays
- Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1974)
- Ground Level (1981)
- The Whites of Their Eyes (1975)
- Perfect Strangers (1976)
- Hearts of Gold (1983)
- White Lies (1994)