Stevan Eldred-Grigg


Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a New Zealand author of nine novels, eight history books and various essays and short stories.

Writings

In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history PhD thesis at Australian National University called 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914' [1]

In 1987 he published his first novel, Oracles and Miracles, the story of two sisters growing up in Christchurch before and during World War II.[2] Since then he has written several fiction and non-fiction books. Kaput! focuses on Europe and portrays an ordinary housewife struggling to deal with day-to-day life in wartime Berlin during the period of the Third Reich in Germany.

Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when Oracles and Miracles, was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹.[3][2]

Eldred-Grigg's three most recent books are Diggers, Hatters & Whores, a history of gold rushes in New Zealand; The Great Wrong War, a history of New Zealand during World War I; and People, People, People (2011, ISBN 978-1-86953-813-2), a very brief history of New Zealand from 1200 to 2000.[4]

Bibliography

References
  1. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/128316
  2. "Oracles and Miracles". Stevan Eldred-Grigg. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  3. "Chinese Edition of New Zealand's First Contemporary Novel Released in China". en.people.cn. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 20, 2007. Retrieved December 30, 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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