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== Novels == |
== Novels == |
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* Coming Up Roses (short stories) |
* Coming Up Roses (short stories), 2007 |
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* Dead People's Music |
* Dead People's Music, 2009 |
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* The Fall of Light |
* The Fall of Light, 2013 |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 00:16, 11 August 2018
Sarah Laing | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Champaign-Urbana, USA |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Genre | Cartoons, illustration, poetry, fiction |
| Notable works | Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics, Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir |
| Website | |
| Blog, Let Me Be Frank | |
Sarah Laing (born 1973) is a New Zealand author and cartoonist.
Background
Laing was born in 1973 in Champaign-Urbana, USA and grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. As a teenager she moved to Wellington and has also lived in Germany, New York, and Auckland. She is currently based in Wellington.[1]
Career
Laing has a background in graphic design and worked as an illustrator.[1] She illustrated Macaroni Moon, a children's poetry book by Paula Green.[2]
In 2007 she published her first collection of short stories, Coming up Roses.[3] Her first novel Dead People’s Music was published in 2009.[4] She is also the author of the short story ebook Inside a Pomegranate.[1]
Following her time at the Sargeson Centre, she published The Fall of Light, a graphically illustrated novel.[1][5]
In 2016 she published the memoir Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir (Victoria University Press), using the life and work of Katherine Mansfield to reflect on her own experiences.[1]
With Rae Joyce and Indira Neville, Laing is the co-author of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics.[6][7]
Awards
In 2006, Laing won the 2006 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition.[8]
Laing was a writer in resident at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2008 and 2013.[9] With Sonja Yelich she received the 2010 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.[10]
Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir was long listed in the Illustrated non-fiction catergoy of the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[11]
Novels
- Coming Up Roses (short stories), 2007
- Dead People's Music, 2009
- The Fall of Light, 2013
References
- ^ a b c d e "Sarah Laing". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Laing, Sarah (2009). Macaroni Moon. Random House. ISBN 9781869791513.
- ^ Laing, Sarah (2007). Coming up Roses. Random House. ISBN 9781869419202.
- ^ Laing, Sarah (2009). Dead People's Music. Random House. ISBN 9781869791087.
- ^ Laing, Sarah (2013). The Fall of Light. Vintage. ISBN 9781775533030.
- ^ "Three Words: an introduction". Three Words. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Joyce, Rae; Laing, Sarah; Neville, Indira (2016). Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics. Beatnik. ISBN 9780994120502.
- ^ "Top New Zealand novelist Sarah Laing says winning Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards was 'pivotal'". Stuff. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Sarah Laing". Writers in Residence. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship". Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "2017 Awards Longlist". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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