Marcus Campbell

MARCUS CAMPBELL was born in New Zealand in 1951. He studied English literature and drama at university in Wellington, then theatre arts, particularly set design, in California, with the aid of a Fulbright Foundation grant. Later, awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship by the British government, he completed a Master of Fine Arts in directing at the university of Victoria, BC, Canada. A playwright during his early theatre career, his plays have been performed in Auckland, Seattle, Juneau, New York (Greenwich Village) and selected for the NZ National Playwrights' Workshop (1983). His short stories, 'Death of the Hawk' now published on Amazon, have earned him the Frank Sargeson Award (NZ, 1981). He was also a semi-finalist in the Katherine Mansfield short story competition (1983). 'A Blue Forest' which first appeared in 2015, is his first novel. He has also written a travel-memoir 'Crossways', about a journey he made on Mount Athos, Greece in search of the monastic life. After many years in England, Scotland and Australia, he now lives in France.