Charlotte Randall

Charlotte
Randall

Charlotte Randall’s first novel, Dead Sea Fruit, won the South East Asian/South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book and the Reed Fiction Award in 1995. Her second novel, The Curative, was joint-runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. What Happen Then, Mr Bones? was a finalist for the same award in 2005. Her latest novel, The Bright Side of my Condition, was a finalist for the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Prize for Fiction.

Randall was born and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand, and now lives on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch.

Photo Credit: Charlotte Randall

Charlotte Randall’s first novel, Dead Sea Fruit, won the South East Asian/South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book and the Reed Fiction Award in 1995. Her second novel, The Curative, was joint-runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. What Happen Then, Mr Bones? was a finalist for the same award in 2005. Her latest novel, The Bright Side of my Condition, was a finalist for the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Prize for Fiction.

Randall was born and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand, and now lives on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch.

Photo Credit: Charlotte Randall

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