Sarah Quigley

Sarah Quigley
Born (1967-10-01) October 1, 1967
Language English, German
Nationality New Zealander
Alma mater University of Oxford
Genre fiction, short stories, poetry
Notable works The Conductor
Website
www.sarahvquigley.com

Sarah Quigley (born 1 October 1967) is a novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, and columnist from New Zealand.

Background

Born in New Zealand, Quigley has a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.[1][2]

Works

Novels

  • The Suicide Club (2017)
  • The Conductor (2011), the highest-selling adult fiction title in New Zealand in 2011, staying at Number One for twenty weeks[2]
  • Fifty Days (2004)
  • Shot (2003)
  • After Robert (2000)
  • having words with you (1998)

Short stories

  • Tenderness (2014), collection of short stories

Work by Quigley was included in:

  • Primal Picnics (2011)
  • The Best of New Zealand Fiction 5 (2008)
  • Second Violins (2008)
  • The Cat's Whiskers (2008)
  • The Best of New Zealand Fiction 4 (2007)
  • Sunday 22 (2006)
  • Landfall 209 (2005)
  • The Best of New Zealand Fiction 1 (2004)
  • Essential New Zealand Short Stories (2002)
  • 100 NZ Short Short Stories (1997)

Poetry

  • Love in a Bookstore or Your Money Back (2003), collected poems
  • New Poetry 1 (1999), with Anna Jackson and Raewyn Alexander)

Poems by Quigley were included in:

  • New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008)

Non-fiction

  • Write: a 30 day guide to creative writing (2006)

Awards

In 2001 Quigley won the Commonwealth Short Story Award and received first place in the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition for Breathing Out.[3][2]

Her novel, The Conductor, was awarded the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers Choice Award in 2012.[4] It was long-listed for the 2012 International IMPAC Award and was short-listed for the Prix Femina in France.[1]

In 2002, she received the CLNZ Writers' Award to write a biography of the poet and patron of writers, Charles Brasch.[3] She was shortlisted in the Reviewer of the Year category of the 1999 and 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[3]

Residencies and fellowships

Quigley received the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998.[3] In 2003 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.[5] Quigley won the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sarah Quigley". Penguin Books New Zealand. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Sarah Quigley". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Sarah Quigley". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  4. "Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award - Literature - Christchurch City Libraries". christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  5. "The Robert Burns Fellowship". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 October 2017.


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