Lorraine Orman (born 24 November 1948) is a New Zealand writer, librarian, writing tutor, competition judge and reviewer. She has written books for children and young adults and a number of her short stories have been anthologised. Her novel ''Cross Tides'' won the Best First Book Award at the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards in 2005. She lives in
Christchurch
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Biography
Lorraine Orman was born on 24 November 1948 in
Auckland
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. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the
University of Auckland
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, followed by a post-graduate diploma of librarianship in
Wellington
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.
Her library career included jobs at the National Library and school and tertiary institution libraries.
With a young family, she began to write short stories for children, the first of which was published in the ''
New Zealand School Journal
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'' in 1982.
Since then, her stories have been included in anthologies and broadcast on National Radio.
She was involved with the Storylines Foundation for many years.
With
Tessa Duder
Tessa Duder (née Staveley, born 13 November 1940) is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth ...
, and on behalf of
IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and the Storylines Foundation, she edited an anthology of short stories to celebrate
International Children’s Book Day in 2007.
She was a judge for the New Zealand Post Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards in 2004
and has also acted as a judge for the LIANZA Awards, the Tessa Duder Award and the
Tom Fitzgibbon Award.
She reviewed children’s books for writing blogs and Magpies magazine and ran many courses and workshops on writing for children.
After living for many years in
Warkworth, Lorraine Orman moved to Christchurch with her husband in 2018 to be closer to family. She has five grandchildren.
Awards and prizes
Orman won the
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a series of literary awards presented annually to recognise excellence in children and young adult's literature in New Zealand. The awards began in 1982 as the New Zealand Governme ...
Best First Book Award 2005 for ''Cross Tides.''
Several of her other books have been named as
Storylines Notable Books.
Publications
Books
* ''Cross Tides'' (Longacre Press, 2004)
* ''Kev and Borax'' illustrated by Mitch Vane
ussie Bites(Puffin, 2005)
* ''A Long Way from Home: The Diary of Lillian Glenmore, Warkworth, 1943''
y Story series(Scholastic 2005); reissued in 2012 as ''Here Come the Marines''
* ''Ratso'' illustrated by Dave Gunson
iwi Bites(Puffin 2005)
* ''Furze the Fixer'' illustrated by Trevor Pye
iwi Bites(Puffin 2005)
* ''Fish Tale'' illustrated by Lara Gazzard
iwi Bites(Puffin, 2006)
* ''Hideout'' (Longacre Press, 2007)
* ''Out of the Deep and Other Stories from New Zealand and the Pacific'' co-editor with
Tessa Duder
Tessa Duder (née Staveley, born 13 November 1940) is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth ...
; illustrated by Bruce Potter (Reed 2007)
* ''Land of Promise: The Diary of William Donahue, Gravesend to Wellington, 1839-40''
y Story series(Scholastic NZ, 2008)
* ''Haunted'' (Walker Books, 2009)
* ''Touchstone'' (Asmore Books 2013; e-book format)
Short stories in anthologies
* ''The Puffin New Zealand Storybook'' (2nd ed, Puffin, 1996)
* ''Animal Stories for 9-year-olds'' (Macmillan, 1999)
* ''30 Weird and Wonderful New Zealand Stories'' (Random House NZ, 2003)
* ''Claws and Jaws: 30 New Zealand Animal Stories'' (Random House NZ, 2004)
* ''Mischief & Mayhem: 30 New Zealand Stories'' (Random House NZ, 2005)
* ''Hideous & Hilarious: 30 New Zealand Historical Stories'' (Random House NZ, 2006)
* ''Dare & Double Dare: 30 New Zealand Sporty Stories'' (Random House NZ, 2007)
* ''The Puffin Treasury of New Zealand Children’s Stories'', vol. 4 (Puffin, 2007)
* ''Pick ‘n’ Mix: Assorted Kiwi Stories'', vol. 2 (Scholastic NZ, 2010)
References
External links
Biography of Lorraine Orman at Read NZ: Te Pou Muramura website
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Living people
1948 births
New Zealand children's writers
New Zealand women children's writers
University of Auckland alumni