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Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey’s honours include Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her region; the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award; the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship to Menton, France; the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; a Betty Trask Award (UK); and a longlisting for the Orange Prize. Her novel Golden Deeds was chosen as a book of the year by Time Out magazine (London), as well as by the New York Times Book Review and the LA Times Book Review. Her latest novel The Wish Child is shortlisted for the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize.


Catherine Chidgey at DWRF 2017
​Catherine Chidgey
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