Justin Cartwright is a novelist. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

He was born in South Africa in 1945 (where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper) and educated there, in the United States and at Oxford University. He has worked in advertising, and has also directed documentaries, films and television commercials; and managed election broadcasts for the Liberal Party, and then the SDP-Liberal Alliance, during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections, for which he was awarded the MBE. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. ... The SDP-Liberal Alliance was an electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the UK that ran from 1981 to 1988, when the bulk of the two parties merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, later referred to as simply the Liberal Democrats. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...

His novels under his own name include:

• "Deep Six" (1972)
• "Fighting Men" (1977)
• "The Horse of Darius" (1980)
• Freedom for the Wolves (1983)
• Interior (1988)
• Look At It This Way (1990)
• Masai Dreaming (1993)
• In Every Face I Meet (1995)
• Leading the Cheers (1998)
• Half in Love (2001)
• White Lightning (2002)
• The Promise of Happiness (2004)

Not Yet Home, a non-fiction work, was published in 1997.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation presenter Ramona Koval described Cartwright's novels as being "...based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us". The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national non-commercial public broadcaster. ...

Three of Cartwright's early novels feature a character named Timothy Curtiz, named partly for Kurtz from Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", and partly for Cartwright's own brother. In Interior Curtiz is in Africa investigating the disappearance of his father in 1959 while on a trip for National Geographic magazine; in Look At It This Way Curtiz is a columnist for Manhattan magazine while he is living in London, has a daughter named Gemma, and by the end of the novel has a partner named Victoria; in Masai Dreaming Curtiz is in Africa researching a film about Claudia Cohn-Casson, and his relationship with Victoria is having "complications". Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...

Look At It This Way was made into a three-part, 180-minutes drama by the BBC in 1992, starring Kristin Scott Thomas; Cartwright wrote the screenplay. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Kristin Scott Thomas in Random Hearts Kristin Scott Thomas on the cover of Harpers & Queen Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born May 24, 1960) is an English actress, born in Redruth, Cornwall. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ...

Literary Prizes

In Every Face I Meet was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award in 1995, and won a Commonwealth Writers Prize; Leading the Cheers won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1998; White Lightning was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award in 2002. Masai Dreaming won the South African M Net award. The Promise of Happiness was chosen as one of Richard and Judy's Book Club's titles for 2005 and was the winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize and the Sunday Times of South Africa Prize. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... The Commonwealth Writers Prize was established in 1987. ... Richard & Judy is a very popular afternoon magazine/talk-show presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. ... The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award. ...

Cartwright's films include Rosie Dixon, Night Nurse, made in 1978.

Cartwright lives in London with his wife, Penny, and two sons, Rufus and Serge.