Catherine
Chidgey
Catherine Chidgey’s previous novels are In a Fishbone Church, Golden Deeds, and The Transformation . Some of her honours include Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific), a Betty Trask Award (UK), and BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, and a longlisting for the Orange Prize. Golden Deeds was chosen by Time Out magazine as a book of the year, and was a 2001 Notable Book in the New York Times Book Review. In 2001 Catherine spent time in Menton, France as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow, and in 2002 she won the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters. The Wish Child was the winner of The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2017.
She lives in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand.
Catherine Chidgey’s previous novels are In a Fishbone Church, Golden Deeds, and The Transformation . Some of her honours include Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific), a Betty Trask Award (UK), and BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, and a longlisting for the Orange Prize. Golden Deeds was chosen by Time Out magazine as a book of the year, and was a 2001 Notable Book in the New York Times Book Review. In 2001 Catherine spent time in Menton, France as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow, and in 2002 she won the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters. The Wish Child was the winner of The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2017.
She lives in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand.
