Catherine Chidgey author biography, plus links to books by Catherine Chidgey.

Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey's novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her second, Golden Deeds, was a Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times Book Review and a Best Book in the LA Times. Her novel Remote Sympathy (Europa, 2021) was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel Pet (Europa, 2023) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a New Yorker and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Pet is also long-listed for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award and the Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham Book Awards, New Zealand's most prestigious literary award, which Chidgey has won twice, for The Wish Child and The Axeman's Carnival. She lives in Ngāruawāhia and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.

This biography was last updated on 08/13/2024.

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