Английская Википедия:Emily Perkins (novelist)
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Emily Justine Perkins Шаблон:Post-nominals (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author.
Early life
Perkins was born in Christchurch.[1] She graduated from Toi Whakaari with a diploma in acting in 1989.[2] She also studied writing at Victoria University.[1]
Career
Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories.
Perkins' novels are Leave Before You Go (Picador, 1998), The New Girl (Picador, 2001), Novel About My Wife (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008), and The Forrests (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012).
A long-time resident of London, Perkins lived in Auckland where she was employed by both the University of Auckland as a creative writing tutor and Auckland University of Technology as a lecturer. She now lives in Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters.[3]
Perkins presented a television series about books called The Good Word from 2009 to 2012.[4]
Awards
Not Her Real Name and Other Stories was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Award and won the Best First Book (Fiction) Award. Subsequently, it also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.[5]
Novel About My Wife won the 2009 Montana Book Awards and the Believer Book Award.
The Forrests was tipped by the Hay Festival to win the 2012 Man Booker Prize,[6] but failed to reach the long list.
Perkins was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to literature.[7]
Publications
- Perkins, Emily (1997). Not Her Real Name and Other Stories. Picador. Шаблон:ISBN.
- — (1998). Leave Before You Go. Picador. Шаблон:ISBN.
- — (2002). The New Girl. Picador. Шаблон:ISBN.
- — (2008). Novel About My Wife. Bloomsbury Publishing Шаблон:ISBN.
- — (2012). The Forrests. Bloomsbury Publishing Шаблон:ISBN.
- — (2023). Lioness. Bloomsbury Шаблон:ISBN.
References
External links
- Шаблон:Official
- New Zealand Book Council biography
- 2008 interview at books site Pickle Me This
- Interview with Emily Perkins on her first play; Standing Room Only, Radio New Zealand National, 2015
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