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

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