Barbara Else

Barbara Else is a writer, editor, literary agent, fiction consultant and playwright. She has written novels for adults and children, plays, short stories and articles and has also edited several anthologies of children’s stories. She works as a literary agent and manuscript assessor with her husband, writer Chris Else.

Biography

Barbara Else (also published as Barbara Neale)[1] was born in Invercargill in 1947.[2] She lived in Riverton until age two, when her family shifted to Wellington.[3] She has lived in Wellington, Auckland, Oamaru, Christchurch, San Diego and Dunedin and has two daughters and four grandchildren.[2]

She graduated with an MA from Otago University in 1969[1] and has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a freelance writer.[4] She has served on the New Zealand Book Council and on the National Council of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN). Barbara Else and her husband, writer Chris Else, were instrumental in setting up both the New Zealand Association of Literary Agents (NZALA) and the New Zealand Association of Manuscript Assessors (NZAMA).[5]

She was a judge for the NZ Post Book Awards for Children’s and Young Adults in 2004[1] and Judge Convenor for the 2014 NZ Children's Book Awards,[6] and has appeared at local and international writer and reader festivals.[6]

Else now lives in Dunedin, having stayed there after her residency in 2016.[3] She works as a literary agent and manuscript assessor with Chris Else.[6]

Awards and residencies

Else’s first novel The Warrior Queen was shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and her second, Gingerbread Husbands, for the Booksellers BookData Award. The Travelling Restaurant (the first in her fantasy quartet for children, Tales of Fontania) won the 2012 Junior Fiction Honour Award in the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, the Esther Glen Medal in the 2012 LIANZA Awards, a White Raven Award and the 2012 IBBY NZ Honour Book for Writing.[6]

In 1998, Barbara Else was a visiting writer at Vancouver International Writers' Festival and the Winnipeg International Writers' Festival.[1] She was Writer in Residence at Victoria University in 1999.[5] In 2004 she was awarded a Creative New Zealand Scholarship in Letters and in 2005, she became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for Services to Literature.[5]

In 2016, Else was the University of Otago College of Education/Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence in Dunedin. In the same year, she was awarded the Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children’s Literature[7] and delivered the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal Lecture 2016.[8]

 

Bibliography 

Author

The Warrior Queen (Godwit Publishing 1995; HarperCollins Australia 1995; Macmillan UK 1998; Goldmann Verlag Germany 1998)

Gingerbread Husbands (Godwit Publishing 1997; HarperCollins Australia (Flamingo); 1998 Macmillan UK 1999)

Skitterfoot Leaper (HarperCollins NZ 1997)

Eating Peacocks (Random House; Vintage 1998)

Tricky Situations (Random House 1999)

Three Pretty Widows (Random House; Vintage 2000)

The Case of the Missing Kitchen (Random House; Vintage 2003)

Wild Latitudes (Random House; Vintage 2007)

The Travelling Restaurant (Gecko Press 2011; Scholastic Australia, Lerner Books USA, France, Denmark, Turkey)

The Queen and the Nobody Boy (Gecko Press 2012; Scholastic Australia, Lerner Books USA)

The Volume of Possible Endings (Gecko Press 2014; Scholastic Australia, Lerner Books USA)

The Knot Impossible (Gecko Press 2015; Scholastic Australia, Lerner Books USA)

Go Girl (Penguin Random House, 2018)

Editor

Grand Stands (Vintage, 2000)

Another 30 New Zealand Stories for Children, illustrated by David Elliot (Random House 2002)

30 Weird & Wonderful New Zealand Stories, illustrated by Philip Webb (Random House 2003)

Claws & Jaws: 30 New Zealand Animal Stories, illustrated by Philip Webb (Random House 2004)

Like Wallpaper: New Zealand Short Stories for Teenagers (Random House 2005)

Mischief & Mayhem: 30 New Zealand Stories illustrated by Philip Webb (Random House 2005)

Hideous & Hilarious: 30 New Zealand Historical Stories, illustrated by Philip Webb (Random House 2006)

Dare and Double-dare: 30 Sports Stories for Children (Random House 2007)

Showtime!: 30 NZ Stories for Children (Random House 2008).

Great Mates: 30 NZ Stories for Children (Random House 2011)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Else, Barbara". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  2. 1 2 "Barbara Else". Storylines NZ. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 Otago Bulletin Board (25 July 2016). "Author Barbara Else stays in the south". University of Otago. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  4. ↑ "Barbara's Page". TFS Literary Agency and Manuscript Assessment Service. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  5. 1 2 3 "Barbara Else ANZL member". Academy of New Zealand Literature Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Barbara Else". The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  7. ↑ "Barbara Else". Playmarket. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  8. ↑ Else, Barbara (2016). "Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal Lecture 2016" (PDF). Storylines NZ. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
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