# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-chidgey
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:24.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-chidgey"
name: "Catherine Chidgey"
slug: "catherine-chidgey"
description: "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."
tagline: "New Zealand writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CatherineChidgeyWORD2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.628656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CathChidgey"
    handle:    "CathChidgey"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Chidgey"
    title: "Catherine Chidgey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Chidgey"
    title: "Catherine Chidgey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Chidgey"
    title: "Catherine Chidgey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC"
    title: "キャサリン・チッジー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Chidgey"
    title: "Catherine Chidgey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052587"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump