Sarah Quigley is a New Zealand-born writer.
Background
Sarah Quigley was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the 1 October 1967. She has an MA Hons from the University of Canterbury and a DPhil in English Literature from the
University of Oxford
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.
After winning the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000, she divided her time between Germany and New Zealand. She has met Swedish-born husband in Berlin.
Career
A graduate of
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Well ...
’s creative writing course, Quigley won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998. Her short stories and poetry have been widely broadcast and published, and she has won many prizes including the ''Sunday Star-Times'' Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Her publications include novels, short fiction, a creative writing manual and poetry collections, many of which have sold internationally. Her novel ''The Conductor'' (2011) was the highest-selling adult fiction title in New Zealand in 2011, staying at number one for 20 weeks.
Awards
In 2001 Quigley won the Commonwealth Short Story Award and received first place in the
Sunday Star-Times
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Short Story Competition for ''Breathing Out.''
In 2002, she received the CLNZ Writers' Award to write a biography of the poet and patron of writers,
Charles Brasch
Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ''Landfall'', and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant i ...
.
She was shortlisted in the Reviewer of the Year category of the 1999 and 2000
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
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.
''The Conductor'' was awarded the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers Choice Award in 2012. It was longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the
Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine ''La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...
in France.
In 2015 she won the MPA Columnist of the Year for her Next magazine column ''The Divorce Diaries'', and was runner-up for the award in 2016 and 2019.
Residencies and fellowships
Quigley received the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998.
In 2003 she was awarded the
Robert Burns Fellowship
The Robert Burns Fellowship is a New Zealand literary residency. Established in 1958 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Robert Burns, it is often claimed to be New Zealand's premier literary residency. The list of past ...
(alongside
Nick Ascroft
Nick Ascroft (born 1973) is a New Zealand poet and writer.
Life
Nick Ascroft was born in Oamaru, New Zealand in 1973. In his career of writing, his poetry has been featured widely in both New Zealand and international journals. Ascroft's publis ...
), a literary residency at the
University of Otago
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in
Dunedin
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, New Zealand.
Quigley won the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000.
Works
Novels
* ''The divorce diaries'' (2020)
* ''The Suicide Club'' (2017)
* ''The Conductor'' (2011)
* ''Fifty Days'' (2004)
* ''Shot'' (2003)
* ''After Robert'' (2000)
* ''having words with you'' (1998)
Short stories
* ''Tenderness'' (2014), collection of short stories
Work by Quigley was included in:
* ''Primal Picnics'' (2011)
* ''The Best of New Zealand Fiction 5'' (2008)
* ''Second Violins'' (2008)
* ''The Cat's Whiskers'' (2008)
* ''The Best of New Zealand Fiction 4'' (2007)
* ''Sunday 22'' (2006)
* ''Landfall 209'' (2005)
* ''The Best of New Zealand Fiction 1'' (2004)
* ''Essential New Zealand Short Stories'' (2002)
* ''100 NZ Short Short Stories'' (1997)
Poetry
* ''Love in a Bookstore or Your Money Back'' (2003), collected poems
* ''New Poetry 1'' (1999), with Anna Jackson and Raewyn Alexander)
Poems by Quigley were included in:
* ''New New Zealand Poets in Performance'' (2008)
Non-fiction
* ''Write: a 30 day guide to creative writing'' (2006)
References
External links
Official homepage
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Living people
1967 births
New Zealand women novelists
New Zealand women short story writers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
New Zealand women poets
20th-century New Zealand novelists
20th-century New Zealand short story writers
20th-century New Zealand poets
20th-century New Zealand women writers
21st-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand short story writers
21st-century New Zealand poets
21st-century New Zealand women writers