BOOKS
Stations
Cover design for 2016 David Philip Publishers edition by Louis de Villiers (Skullboy)
Cover painting for 2022 L’instant Même (Québec) edition by Jean de Wet.
Short fiction
2016
First published in South Africa by David Philip Publishers (Cape Town); new edition in 2023 from Karavan Press (Cape Town).
ABOUT:
Fourteen rich and entangled stories set on the cosmopolitan Southern African coast and its hinterland.
Journey on broken-family vacations, or into canefields where clouds of birds fill the sky. Join a postman on his jaunt into the weird world of the ultra rich, or descend into a haunting colonial purgatory.
Meet people from all walks of life as they try to navigate them, stuck between a fragmented present and an unspeakable past.
PRIZES:
Runner-up for the 2016 Nadine Gordimer Award
Longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Prize
Winner of the 2016 Thomas Pringle Prize (for “1-HR FOTO”)
Winner of the 2014 National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Award (for “Turning”)
Shortlisted for the 2015 White Review Prize (for “Posman”)
TRANSLATIONS:
Québec French (2022, L’Instant Même); translated by Myriam Ouellet, Mylène Tremblay, Tamara Djurica, Émilie Dumas, Lou Fero, Iris Lindsay and Marie-Ève Rousseau, under the supervision of Louis Jolicœur.
Cover design for 2023 Karavan Press edition by Michael Tymbios.
REVIEWS:
“One never gets bored in the company of Nick Mulgrew.” – Nuit Blanche
"It’s difficult to believe that this is only Nick Mulgrew’s debut collection of stories. Stations reads like the work of a seasoned writer. Here is someone with acuity and a perfectly pitched voice." – Cape Times
“Unforgettable.” – Mail & Guardian
“Affecting, high-concept, delivers various bangs for your buck.” – Sunday Times
“You can open Stations at any page, choose a paragraph, and within seconds find yourself drawn into his world of considerate, complex and sincere characters. He weaves through everyday moments of South African life, leaving you feeling blind for not having noticed them before.” – City Press
“Beautiful and vivid. Mulgrew’s use of language is masterful.” – Sowetan