Rachael King (born 1970) is an author from New Zealand.

Background

King was born in 1970, in

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, New Zealand. In 2001 she received a

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in creative writing from

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. King is a bass guitarist and has played with several bands on the Flying Nun label. King's father is the historian and author Michael King and her brother is filmmaker

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Works

King has published three novels: * ''The Sound of Butterflies'' (2006, Random House) * ''Magpie Hall'' (2009, Random House) * ''Red Rocks'' (2012, Random House), novel for children Short stories by King have been published in several anthologies including in ''Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers'' and ''Creative Juices''. In 2013, King became Literary Director of the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival. She was a judge for the

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in 2017.

Awards

In 2007, King's first novel ''The Sound of Butterflies'' won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the

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. Her novel for children, ''Red Rocks'', was shortlisted for the Junior Fiction category in the 2013

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and won the LIANZA

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. King was the 2008 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury. She has also won the 2005

Lilian Ida Smith Award The Lilian Ida Smith Award also known as the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award is a New Zealand literary award from the New Zealand Society of Authors. The award is named after Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher from Whanganui. She granted the New Zeal ...

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Rachael Living people 1970 births People from Hamilton, New Zealand New Zealand fiction writers New Zealand women novelists New Zealand women short story writers International Institute of Modern Letters alumni