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Catherine Chidgey

New Zealand writer

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Born 1970 · age 56New Zealand
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    Born 1970
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-07-11

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.

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