'terrifically strong poetry' - Radio NZ
Fiona Kidman has published over 30 books, including novels, poetry,
non-fiction and a play. She has worked as a librarian, radio
producer and critic, and as a scriptwriter for radio, television
and film. The New Zealand Listener wrote- 'In her craft and her
storytelling and in her compassionate gutsy tough expression of
female experience, she is the best we have.'
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships; in
more recent years, The Captive Wife was runner-up for the Deutz
Medal for Fiction and was joint-winner of the Readers' Choice Award
in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and her short story
collection The Trouble with Fire was shortlisted for both the NZ
Post Book Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Her
novel This Mortal Boy won the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the NZ Booklovers Award, the NZSA
Heritage Book Award for Fiction and the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing
Award for Best Novel.
She was created a Dame (DNZM) in 1998 in recognition of her
contribution to literature, and more recently a Chevalier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Chevalier of the French
Legion of Honour. 'We cannot talk about writing in New Zealand
without acknowledging her,' wrote New Zealand Books. 'Kidman's
accessible prose and the way she shows (mainly) women grappling to
escape from restricting social pressures has guaranteed her a
permanent place in our fiction.'
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