Fiona Farrell
Appearance
Fiona Farrell, ONZM (born 1947) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer and playwright. Her latest novel, Limestone, was published in April 2009.[1] The Broken Book, (essays and poetry) was published by Auckland University Press 2011.[2] She lives at Otanerito on Banks Peninsula with her partner Doug Hood, and until April 2017, their Otanerito Beach House was a stop over point at the Banks Peninsula Track.[3][4] She worked in Palmerston North for a while in the 1970s.
Awards and honours
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She has won several awards for short fiction, including the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award and the American Express Award.
- 1983 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award[5]
- 1990 The Perils of Pauline Smith' (1990) won the Mobil Award for Best Radio Drama
- 1991-1992 Canterbury University Writer in Residence
- 'Chook Chook' (1992) remains one of Playmarket's most frequently requested scripts
- 1993 The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin,1992) won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction[6]
- 1995 recipient of the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship[7]
- 2003, 2005 The Hopeful Traveller (Random House, 2002) and Book Book (Random House, 2004) were runners-up at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2003 and 2005 respectively, and were also nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards 2003 and 2005.[8]
- 2006 inaugural Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland
- 2007 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[9] worth $60,000.[10]
- 2008 The Pop-Up Book of Invasions (Auckland University Press, 2007) was runner-up in the poetry category at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[11]
- 2009 Mr Allbones' Ferrets (Random House, 2007) was nominated for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC Award
- 2010 Finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Book Awards in the Fiction category for her novel, Limestone (Random House, 2009)[12]
- 2011 Robert Burns Fellow[13]
- 2012 Officer in the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Literature
- 2013 Awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the Christchurch earthquakes
- 2015 non-fiction book The Village at the End of the Empire: 100 Ways to Read a City was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
- 2016 The Villa at the Edge of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City was a finalist for the Non-Fiction section of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[14]
Bibliography
Novels:
- The Skinny Louie Book (1992)
- Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women (1996)
- The Hopeful Traveller (2002)
- Book Book (2004)
- Mr Allbones' Ferrets (2007)
- Limestone (2009)
Poetry:
- Cutting Out (1987)
- The Inhabited Initial (1999)
- The Pop-Up Book of Invasions (2007)
Short Stories:
- The Rock Garden (1989)
- Light Readings (2001)
References
- ^ "New Zealand Book Council". Bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ "Fiona Farrell interview - New Zealand Listener". Listener.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ "Fiona Farrell". Auckland University Press. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ Hayward, Michael (5 November 2016). "Banks Peninsula Track loses a day". The Press. p. A16. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ Edmond, Murray (6 October 2014). "Plays and playwrights - Theatre into the 2000s". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Past Winners | New Zealand Book Awards Trust". Nzbookawards.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ "Katherine Mansfield - Menton Fellowship - List of Fellows". mansfieldfellowship.org. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ "Past Winners | New Zealand Book Awards Trust". Nzbookawards.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Awards for literary achievement". Creativenz.govt.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ "Past Winners | New Zealand Book Awards Trust". Nzbookawards.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ "Past Winners | New Zealand Book Awards Trust". Nzbookawards.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
- ^ Zealand, Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New. "The Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand". Otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "2016 Awards Shortlist | New Zealand Book Awards Trust". Nzbookawards.nz. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
External links
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- New Zealand women novelists
- New Zealand short story writers
- Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
- 20th-century New Zealand poets
- New Zealand women poets
- 20th-century New Zealand novelists
- 21st-century New Zealand novelists
- New Zealand women short story writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 21st-century New Zealand poets
- 20th-century short story writers
- 21st-century short story writers