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Top 100 Writers in New Zealand

The most publicly visible writers in New Zealand.

Most famous living

The most famous writers in New Zealand right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

New ZealandWriters113 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Richard Curtis	New Zealand	Writers	60.8	11.3
#2	new	Andrew Niccol	New Zealand	Writers	58.1	2.3
#3	new	Pamela Stephenson	New Zealand	Writers	56.6	16.4
#4	new	Fran Walsh	New Zealand	Writers	55.6	0.0
#5	new	Eleanor Catton	New Zealand	Writers	53.0	0.0
#6	new	Philippa Boyens	New Zealand	Writers	52.8	0.0
#7	new	Stephen Hunter	New Zealand	Writers	51.6	6.4
#8	new	Anthony McCarten	New Zealand	Writers	50.2	0.0
#9	new	Tamsyn Muir	New Zealand	Writers	50.2	0.0
#10	new	Witi Ihimaera	New Zealand	Writers	49.5	0.0
#11	new	Don McKinnon	New Zealand	Writers	49.4	8.2
#12	new	Alan Duff	New Zealand	Writers	48.9	10.6
#13	new	Phil Goff	New Zealand	Writers	48.5	0.0
#14	new	Tom Marsters	New Zealand	Writers	48.4	1.5
#15	new	SY Sonja Yelich	New Zealand	Writers	47.8	0.0
#16	new	Juliet Marillier	New Zealand	Writers	47.7	1.8
#17	new	PG Pauline Gedge	New Zealand	Writers	47.3	5.4
#18	new	Paul Cleave	New Zealand	Writers	46.6	6.6
#19	new	Joel Hayward	New Zealand	Writers	46.5	4.5
#20	new	RA Ross Ardern	New Zealand	Writers	46.0	0.0
#21	new	C. K. Stead	New Zealand	Writers	45.5	8.8
#22	new	Patricia Grace	New Zealand	Writers	45.5	0.0
#23	new	Joy Cowley	New Zealand	Writers	44.9	3.0
#24	new	Lang Leav	New Zealand	Writers	44.1	3.3
#25	new	Chloe Gong	New Zealand	Writers	44.0	0.0
#26	new	Joseph Sullivan	New Zealand	Writers	43.8	0.0
#27	new	DS David Stahel	New Zealand	Writers	43.4	0.0
#28	new	Fiona Kidman	New Zealand	Writers	43.2	17.5
#29	new	PA Pamela Allen	New Zealand	Writers	42.9	1.0
#30	new	James Belich	New Zealand	Writers	42.8	0.4
#31	new	BB Bernard Beckett	New Zealand	Writers	42.8	9.4
#32	new	Catherine Chidgey	New Zealand	Writers	42.4	0.0
#33	new	PA Pip Adam	New Zealand	Writers	42.0	6.7
#34	new	JB Joanna Bourke	New Zealand	Writers	41.9	0.0
#35	new	Ngahuia Te Awekotuku	New Zealand	Writers	41.7	0.0
#36	new	Brian Boyd	New Zealand	Writers	41.6	0.0
#37	new	Murray McCully	New Zealand	Writers	41.6	0.0
#38	new	DB Deidre Brown	New Zealand	Writers	40.5	6.1
#39	new	Annamarie Jagose	New Zealand	Writers	39.7	0.0
#40	new	Hinemoana Baker	New Zealand	Writers	39.3	8.7
#41	new	LJ Laura Jean McKay	New Zealand	Writers	38.8	1.8
#42	new	Janet Holmes	New Zealand	Writers	38.3	15.0
#43	new	Jacqueline Fahey	New Zealand	Writers	37.8	0.0
#44	new	John McKinnon	New Zealand	Writers	36.8	1.3
#45	new	Te Raukura O'Connell Rapira	New Zealand	Writers	36.3	4.8
#46	new	Paula Green	New Zealand	Writers	35.0	6.7

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