Catherine Chidgey | |
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Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 8 April 1970
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Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable awards | New Zealand Book Awards, Katherine Mansfield Fellowship |
Spouse | Alan Bekhuis[1] |
Children | 1 |
Catherine Chidgey (born 8 April 1970) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and university lecturer. She has published eight novels. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters;[2][3] the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region); the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on two occasions;[4] and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize.[5]
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