Paddy Richardson is a writer who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has published two collections of short stories, ''Choices'' (Hard Echo Press, 1986) and ''If We Were Lebanese'' (Steele Roberts, 2003), and three novels, ''The Company of a Daughter'' (Steele Roberts, 2000), ''A Year to Learn A Woman'' (Penguin, 2008) and ''Hunting Blind'' (Penguin, 2010). Her work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and on radio, and has been highly commended in several writing competitions, including the Katherine Mansfield and Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards. She has been awarded the University of Otago Burns Fellowship, the Beatson fellowship and the University of Otago/James Wallace residency.
Life
Richardson lives and writes in
Broad Bay, a beach settlement on the
Otago Peninsula
The Otago Peninsula ( mi, Muaūpoko) is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it forms one wall of the eroded valley that now forms Otago Harbour. The peninsula lies sou ...
. She wrote part of her second novel ''A Year to Learn A Woman'' while living on the
Kapiti Coast
The Kapiti Coast District is a local government district of the Wellington Region in the lower North Island of New Zealand, 50 km north of Wellington City. The district is named after Kapiti Island, a prominent island offshore.
The pop ...
after being awarded the $6000 Foxton Fellowship, which included a month's residency in a cottage at
Foxton Beach
Foxton Beach is a small settlement in the Horowhenua District of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the South Taranaki Bight at the mouth of the Manawatu River, 35 kilometres southwest of Palmerston ...
.
Books
Novels
* ''The Company of A Daughter'' (Steele Roberts, 2000)
* ''A Year to Learn A Woman'' (Penguin Books, 2008)
* ''Hunting Blind'' (Penguin Books, 2010)
* ''Traces of Red'' (Penguin Books, 2011)
* ''Swimming in the Dark'' (Upstart Press, 2014)
Short Story Collections
* ''Choices'' (Hard Echo Press, 1986)
* ''If We Were Lebanese'' (Steel Roberts, 2003)
References
Living people
People from Otago Peninsula
Women crime fiction writers
New Zealand crime fiction writers
New Zealand women novelists
New Zealand women short story writers
20th-century New Zealand novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century New Zealand short story writers
20th-century New Zealand women writers
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