Graham Billing
Born	Graham John Billing (1936-01-12)12 January 1936 Dunedin, New Zealand
Died	11 December 2001(2001-12-11) (aged 65) Berhampore,Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Occupation(s)	novelist, poet, journalist

Graham John Billing (12 January 1936 – 11 December 2001) was a New Zealand novelist, journalist and poet. He was born in Dunedin, and educated at theOtago Boys' High School and theUniversity of Otago where his father was professor of economics.

He was a newspaper and radio journalist from 1958 to 1977. He had spent four years working on ships, which is reflected in the novelThe Slipway. He was information officer for the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme from 1962 to 1964, reflected in his first novelForbush and the Penguins, which was adapted to film in 1971 asMr. Forbush and the Penguins. Billing was awarded theRobert Burns Fellowship in Dunedin in 1973. The poems inChanging Countries were written after two years teaching in Australia from 1974 to 1975.

An autobiographical element inThe Slipway is his struggle with alcoholism. He also wrote three radio plays and the text for three non-fiction worksSouth: Man and Nature in Antarctica (1964),New Zealand: The Sunlit Land (1966) andThe New Zealanders (1975, 1979).

• Forbush and the Penguins (A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1965)
• The Alpha Trip (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1969)
• Statues (Hodder and Stoughton, 1971)
• The Slipway (Quartet Books, 1973)
• The Primal Therapy of Tom Purslane (Caveman Press, 1980)
• The Chambered Nautilus (Canterbury University Press, 1993)
• The Lifeboat (Cape Catley, 1997)
• The Blue Lion: An Historical Love Story (Cape Catley, 2002)

• Changing Countries (Caveman Press, 1980)

• South: Man and Nature in Antarctica: A New Zealand View (photographs by Guy Mannering, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1964)
• New Zealand: The Sunlit Land (photographs by R.J. Griffith; A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1966)
• The New Zealanders (photographs by Robin Smith and Warren Jacobs; Golden Press, 1975)

• Robinson & Wattie (1998).The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 56.ISBN 0-19-558348-5.
• Sturm, Terry (1998) [1991].The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (2 ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp. 181–182.ISBN 0-19-558385-X.
• Obituary inEvening Post, Wellington, 27 December 2001 page 9

• 1936 births
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• Writers from Dunedin
• New Zealand poets
• People educated at Otago Boys' High School
• University of Otago alumni
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