Anthony McCarten

Anthony McCarten
Born	1961 (age 55–56) New Plymouth, New Zealand
Occupation	Author, playwright, screenwriter
Citizenship	New Zealand
Alma mater	Massey University Victoria University of Wellington

Anthony McCarten (born 1961) is a New Zealand-born novelist, filmmaker and playwright. He divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

McCarten was born and raised in New Plymouth, New Zealand and attended Francis Douglas Memorial College. He worked as a reporter for a couple of years on The Taranaki Herald before studying for an Arts degree at Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington, where he studied creative writing with Bill Manhire. After leaving university, McCarten played in a production of King Lear.

A double Academy Award nominated and double BAFTA winning screenwriter and film producer of the film The Theory Of Everything, as well as a celebrated novelist, he received early international success with his play Ladies Night. Translated into twelve languages, it continues to play worldwide. In 2001, it won France's premiere theatre award for comedy, the Molière Prize. In 2015 he was inducted as a Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors.

McCarten's novels have been translated into 14 languages. His first novel, Spinners (Picador, 2000), was voted one of the top ten novels of that year by Esquire magazine. His third novel, Death Of A Superhero, won the 2008 Austrian Youth Literature Prize and was a finalist for the 2008 German Youth Literature Prize.

The sequel novel to this story, "In The Absence Of Heroes" was published in 2012, and was a finalist for the 2013 New Zealand Fiction Prize and was Longlisted for the 2014 Dublin International IMPAC Literary Award. Also in 2013 came Brilliance (Alma Books (UK), Hawthorne Books (USA), the Gilded Age story of Thomas Edison, the legendary inventor of the first commercially practical incandescent light, and his transforming friendship with the giant of the late 19th-century financial world, J.P. Morgan.

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