Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
[biography]
Joseph Musaphia, born in 1935 in London, was one of the most successful and prolific New Zealand playwrights of the 1970s—80s, his best-known stage plays being Victims (1973), Mothers and Fathers (1975) and Hunting (1979) . He had previously written more than 120 rsdio scripts, screenplays, lyrics and work for television. Since 1980 he has worked mainly as a journalist. 'Charlie Wellman', from which this extract is taken, is his second novel; his first, Let Us Be Naked , was published by Quoin Press in 1997.