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Peter
Kalu is well known as a poet, novelist, playwright and
script writer. He started writing as a member of the Moss
Side Write black writers workshop and has had five novels,
two film scripts and three theatre plays produced to date.
In 2002 he won the Kodak/Liverpool Film Festival Award for
his script, No Trace. In March 2003 he won the BBC/Contact
Theatre's Dangeorus Comedy Script Award for his play, Pants.
He
has lived in Hulme, Moss Side, Didsbury, Edinburgh, Scotland,
Leeds and San Francisco. He trained in Kung Fu, regularly
practising at the Wu Shu Kwan kung fu centre on the corner
of Princes Rd and Alexander Rd, Manchester. He is married
with four children. Before turning to writing he worked as
a translator (of French and Spanish into English), a glass
collector in a Leeds pub called the Shoulder of Mutton, and
as a street busker around the North West. He has a degree
in Law and further qualifications in software programming,
Internet coding (HTML) and Marketing. He runs a Hulme based
Carnival Band called Moko Jumbi (Ghosts of the Gods) which
takes to the streets at Manchester Carnival every year in
July on three feet high stilts! He is learning to tightrope
walk.
Novels:
Yard Dogs (thriller) The X Press September 2002
Diary of a Househusband (romantic comedy) The X Press 1998
Black Star Rising (sci-fi) The X Press June 1998
Professor X ( thriller) The X Press October 1995.
Lick Shot ( thriller) The X Press December 1993.
Forthcoming:
Strangers (literary) The X Press July 2004
Theatre plays:
Pants Contact Theatre, Manchester, 2003
Gabrielle (with Shirley May) Pumphouse Museum 2002
Downfall Manchester University Theatre, Manchester 1995.
Taxi Manchester Town Hall 1994.
Radio plays:
Xango's Challenge broadcast by BBC Radio 3, August 12th 1995
Afrogoth, launched BBC Radio 4's Young Playwrights Festival
1991
Film:
No Trace filmed 2003, now in post production
Revenge Is Ras Malai filmed 2003, now in post production
Poetry:
No Trace monologues for Lychee Lounge, Green Room Manchester
October 2003
Rekindled monologues for Manchester Museum Commision June
2003
Poetry monologues for Commonwealth Games 'aftershock' project
2002
Mongrel Moon (own collection) published by Mongrel Press,
November 1996
printed from www.peterkalu.co.uk
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