Fiona Kidman
Författare till The Captive Wife
Om författaren
Fiona Kidman is a novelist, short-story writer, and educator from New Zealand. In 1988, Kidman's novel, The Book of Secrets, received the New Zealand Book Award for fiction. Another of her works, Mrs. Dixon and Friend, was a collection of stories from 1982 that featured Brenda Dixon, a character visa mer who would be the central figure 15 years later in her novel, The House Within. Kidman taught creative writing at Victoria University Department of Extension and contributed an essay on writing to Mutes and Earthquakes, an anthology edited by New Zealand's Poet Laureate, Bill Manhire. She also participated in the 1997 Winnipeg Writers' Festival, and she received a $27,000 grant from Creative New Zealand in 1997 to write a novel. She received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to literature and the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Fiona Kidman
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Associerade verk
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1940-03-26
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- New Zealand
- Födelseort
- Hawera, New Zealand
- Bostadsorter
- Wellington, New Zealand
Hawera, New Zealand
Northland, New Zealand
Rotorua, New Zealand - Yrken
- writer
editor
librarian
critic
creative writing teacher
radio producer (visa alla 7)
poet - Organisationer
- New Zealand Book Council (President 1992-1995)
PEN (National President 1981-1983) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (1998)
Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow (2006)
Montana NZ Book Awards (A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 2001)
Victoria University Writers' Fellow (1988)
Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (2008)
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Diskussioner
ANZAC Challenge January 2015- Richard Flanagan and Fiona Kidman i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (januari 2015)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 36
- Även av
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 513
- Popularitet
- #48,356
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 35
- ISBN
- 118
- Språk
- 1