Award winning author Catherine Chidgey will be at Ngaruawahia Library on Thursday 7 December for a book chat session.
Catherine, a Ngaruawahia resident, has a long list of awards and honours for her books, including:
- 1997 Adam Foundation Prize for In a Fishbone Church
- 1998 Todd New Writer’s Bursary1998 Sargeson Fellowship
1999 Betty Trask Award for In a Fishbone Church - 1999 Best First Book, Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region) for In a Fishbone Church
- 2001 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship to Menton, France
- 2002 Prize in Modern Letters
- 2003 Writer in Residence, University of Canterbury
- 2005-6 Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago
- 2008 Rathcoola Residency, County Cork, Ireland
- 2009 Writer in Residence, University of Waikato
- 2010 University of Otago Wallace Residency, The Pah Homestead, Auckland
- 2012 New Zealand Society of Authors Beatson Fellowship
- 2013 Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award for Reverse Living
- 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Wish Child
- 2017 Janet Frame Fiction Prize
The session will be held at 10.30am and everyone is welcome. There is no charge to attend.