| Duncan Sarkies | |
|---|---|
| Born | New Zealand |
| Medium | Stand-up, screenwriter, playwright, novelist |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Notable works and roles | Two Little Boys (novel) Two Little Boys (film) |
Duncan Sarkies is a New Zealand screenwriter, playwright, novelist, stand-up comic and short story writer.
Sarkies grew up in the South Island city of Dunedin and is the brother of Robert Sarkies a New Zealand film director who is also a scriptwriter. Sarkies is best known for writing Scarfies, a black comedy-crime thriller about university students in Dunedin who discover a vast crop of marijuana in a house they are squatting in. He wrote New Fans, the tenth episode of the comedy series Flight of the Conchords.
Sarkies debut novel Two Little Boys was published in March 2008, and is being made into a film (also called Two Little Boys) during 2011.[1]