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Catherine Chidgey’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for The Wish Child. She lives in Ngāruawāhia and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato. Her novel Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Chidgey, Chidgey Catherine
• Verlag: Europa Editions
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781787705517
• ISBN: 978-1-78770-551-7
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Animals, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary