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Name
Fiona Farrell
Role
Poet
Books
The Broken Book, The Skinny Louie Book, Mr Allbones' Ferrets, Book Book, The hopeful traveller
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Fiona Farrell, ONZM (born 1947) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer and playwright. Her latest novel, Limestone, was published in April 2009. The Broken Book, (essays and poetry) was published by Auckland University Press 2011. She lives at Otanerito on Banks Peninsula with her partner Doug Hood, and until April 2017, their Otanerito Beach House was a stop over point at the Banks Peninsula Track. She worked in Palmerston North for a while in the 1970s.
She has won several awards for short fiction, including the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award and the American Express Award.
1983 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
1990 The Perils of Pauline Smith' (1990) won the Mobil Award for Best Radio Drama
1991-1992 Canterbury University Writer in Residence
'Chook Chook' (1992) remains one of Playmarket's most frequently requested scripts
1993 The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin,1992) won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction
1995 recipient of the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship
2003, 2005 The Hopeful Traveller (Random House, 2002) and Book Book (Random House, 2004) were runners-up at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2003 and 2005 respectively, and were also nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards 2003 and 2005.
2006 inaugural Rathcoola Residency in Donoughmore, Ireland
2008 The Pop-Up Book of Invasions (Auckland University Press, 2007) was runner-up in the poetry category at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
2009 Mr Allbones' Ferrets (Random House, 2007) was nominated for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC Award
2010 Finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Book Awards in the Fiction category for her novel, Limestone (Random House, 2009)
2011 Robert Burns Fellow
2012 Officer in the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Literature
2013 Awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the Christchurch earthquakes
2015 non-fiction book The Village at the End of the Empire: 100 Ways to Read a City was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
2016 The Villa at the Edge of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City was a finalist for the Non-Fiction section of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
