# Catherine Chidgey

> Catherine Chidgey is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and university lecturer. She has published nine novels, including The Wish Child. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ; the top prize for Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards on two occasions; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize.

*New Zealand writer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Born:** 1970
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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## Fame
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