Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey
Chidgey in November 2019
Chidgey in November 2019
Born (1970-04-08) 8 April 1970 (age 54)
Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • university lecturer
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
GenreFiction
Notable awardsNew Zealand Book Awards, Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
SpouseAlan Bekhuis[1]
Children1

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Black was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ James F. English, The economy of prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value, pp. 315, Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-674-01884-2, ISBN 978-0-674-01884-6.
  3. ^ "Catherine Chidgey's deeds win top award". The New Zealand Herald. 18 March 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  4. ^ "Ockham NZ Book Awards: Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press the big winners". Stuff. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Janet Frame Fiction Prize 2017 to Catherine Chidgey | Booksellers New Zealand". www.booksellers.co.nz. Retrieved 22 July 2017.