Catherine Chidgey
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Catherine Chidgey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Literature & Fiction
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‘she is the real deal, the star of her generation’ (New Zealand Listener magazine) New Zealander Catherine Chidgey is a multiple award-winner whose novels have attracted international acclaim. In a Fishbone Church, her debut, won Best First Book at both the New Zealand book awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Asia-Pacific region). It also won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was a Best Book in the LA Times Book Review and a Notable Book in the New York Times Book Review. Her novel The Wish Child won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize – New Zealand’s richest writing prize. Radio New Zealand called it ‘a brilliant, brilliant novel…a masterpiece’, and The Times (UK) ‘a remarkable book with a stunningly original twist’. Other honours include the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the $60,000 Prize in Modern Letters and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. The best-selling New Zealand edition of her sixth novel, Remote Sympathy, was published to acclaim in October 2020. It is released internationally in April/May 2021.
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