Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright MBEFRSL
Born	Justin James Cartwright (1943-05-20)20 May 1943 Cape Town,Cape Province,Union of South Africa
Died	3 December 2018(2018-12-03)(aged 75)
Occupation(s)	Novelist, Director, Journalist

Justin James CartwrightMBEFRSL(20 May 1943 – 3 December 2018)was a British novelist, originally fromSouth Africa.

Biography

Cartwright was born inCape Town,South Africa,but grew up inJohannesburgwhere his father was the editor of theRand Daily Mailnewspaper. He was educated in South Africa, the United States and atTrinity College, Oxford.Cartwright worked in advertising and directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for theLiberal Partyand then theSDP-Liberal Allianceduring the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed anMBE.

Australian Broadcasting CorporationpresenterRamona Kovaldescribed Cartwright's novels as being "based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us". Three of Cartwright's early novels feature a character named Timothy Curtiz, named partly for Kurtz fromJoseph Conrad'sHeart of Darkness,and partly for Cartwright's own brother. InInterior,Curtiz is in Africa investigating the disappearance of his father in 1959 while on a trip forNational Geographic.InLook at It This Way,Curtiz is a columnist forManhattanmagazine while he is living inLondon,has a daughter named Gemma, and by the end of the novel has a partner named Victoria. InMasai Dreaming,Curtiz is in Africa researching a film about Claudia Cohn-Casson, and his relationship with Victoria is having "complications."Look at It This Waywas made into a three-part, 180-minutes drama by theBBCin 1992, starringKristin Scott Thomas;Cartwright wrote the screenplay.

In Every Face I Meetwas shortlisted for both theBooker Prizeand theWhitbread Novel Awardin 1995, and won aCommonwealth Writers Prize;Leading the Cheerswon the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998;White Lightningwas shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award in 2002.Masai Dreamingwon the South AfricanM-Net Literary Awards.

The Promise of Happinesswas chosen as one ofRichard and Judy'sBook Club's titles for 2005 and was the winner of the 2005Hawthornden Prizeand theSunday TimesFiction Prizeof South Africa.

Cartwright lived in London with his wife, Penny, and two sons.

Bibliography

Novels

• Deep Six(1972)
• Fighting Men(1977)
• Horse of Darius(1980)ISBN0-440-13761-6
• Freedom for the Wolves(1983)
• Interior(1988)ISBN0-679-40866-5
• Look at it This Way(1990)ISBN0-333-54831-0
• Masai Dreaming(1993)ISBN0-333-59281-6
• In Every Face I Meet(1995)ISBN0-340-63782-X
• Leading the Cheers(1998)ISBN0-340-63784-6
• Half in Love(2001)ISBN0-340-76629-8
• White Lightning(2002)ISBN0-340-82174-4
• The Promise of Happiness(2005)ISBN0-312-34880-0
• The Song Before it is Sung(2007)
• To Heaven by Water(2009)
• Other People's Money(2011)ISBN1-408-81413-7
• Lion Heart(2013)ISBN9781408839799
• Up Against the Night(2015)

Non-fiction

• Not Yet Home(1997)ISBN1-85702-526-1
• This Secret Garden(2008)ISBN0-7475-7961-X
• Oxford Revisited(2008)ISBN1-59691-093-3

Films

• Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse(1978) sex comedy[1]
• Look at It This Way(1992) TV mini-series (novel and adaptation)[2]
• Q.E.D.(producer) (1 episode, 1983)[3]

External links

• Justin Cartwright: Bloomsbury publishers page.
• Audio slideshow interview with Justin Cartwrighttalking aboutTo Heaven by Wateron The Interview Online