Charlotte Randall (born
Dunedin
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) is a New Zealand
novelist
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.
Her
first novel
A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...
, ''Dead Sea Fruit'' won the Reed Fiction Award, and the 1996
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
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, Best First Book, South East Asia / Pacific.
She studied psychology at the
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
.
She was the 2000
Victoria University Writers' Fellow, and was the 2005 Ursula Bethell Creative Writing Resident, at
Canterbury University
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was f ...
.
She teaches at New Zealand's Writers College.
She is married with two children.
Works
*''Dead Sea Fruit'' Secker & Warburg, 1995,
*''The Curative'', Penguin Books, 2000,
*''Within the Kiss'', Penguin, 2002,
*''What Happen Then, Mr Bones?'', Penguin Books, 2004,
*''The Crocus Hour'', Penguin Books, 2008,
*''Hokitika Town'', Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited, 2011,
*''The Bright Side of My Condition'', Penguin New Zealand, 2013,
References
External links
charlotte randall's version of punk October 6, 2008
"Charlotte Randall" ''New Zealand Literature File''
New Zealand women novelists
Writers from Dunedin
University of Canterbury alumni
Living people
20th-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand women writers
20th-century New Zealand women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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