Ian Middleton

Ian Middleton (26 October 1928 – 24 October 2007) was a New Zealand novelist, who made a particular mark^[1] with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E. Middleton.

Blind, he said this gave him a "special perspective but 'without limitation'", and has been attributed to the "strong metaphoric colour, sensual - often erotic - quality and lush verbal richness of his writing".^[2]

A full list of his publications can be seen at the University of Auckland's NZ Literature file ^[3] and more biographical information is at the New Zealand Book Council's website.^[4]

Main works

Pet Shop (Waiura: A. Taylor, 1979)
Faces of Hachiko (Auckland: Inca Print, 1984)
Sunflower: a Novel of Present Day Japan (Auckland: Benton Press, 1986)
Mr Ponsonby (Auckland: Lyndon, 1989)
Reiko (Wellington: Moana Press, 1990)
Harvest (Ōkato: Puniho Art Press, 1995)
I See a Voice (Auckland: Flamingo, 1997)

The 'Japanese trilogy' - Faces of Hachiko, Sunflower and Reiko - describes a personal and complex portrayal of post-war Japan. Pet Shop, a novel on his early upbringing in small-town New Zealand, wartime Auckland and his experiences on a Norwegian tanker, was described by New Zealand writer Kevin Ireland as "an absorbing picture of the repressions that passed for a moral code".^[5]

References

^ http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/middletonian.html%7CBook Council entry, Middletonian
^ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)| Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
^ "University of Auckland file". Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
^ Book Council entry, Middletonian
^ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)

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[1] ttp://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/middletonian.html%7CBook Council entry, Middletonian

[2] The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)| Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

[3] "University of Auckland file". Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2010.

[4] Book Council entry, Middletonian

[5] The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)

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