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Authors: Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of five critically acclaimed novels,
Provocation, Guilt, Foreign City, The Night Book
and
Soon
, and two short-story collections,
Opportunity
and
Singularity
. She has been awarded the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship, and is a winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.
Opportunity
was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand’s premier Montana Award for Fiction or Poetry.
Singularity
was a finalist in the Frank O’Connor International Prize and the South East Asia and Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
The Night Book
was one of the three fiction finalists in the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Soon
, a bestseller in New Zealand, has been published in the UK, Canada and the US. Her monthly column in
Metro
magazine won a Qantas Media Award. She lives in Auckland.
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