Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a
New Zealand author of ten novels, eleven history books and various essays and short stories.
Writings
In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history
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called '' 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914' ''
In 1987 he published his first novel, ''Oracles and Miracles'', the story of two sisters growing up in
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Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when ''Oracles and Miracles'', was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹.
Bibliography
Memoirs:
* ''My History, I Think'' (Penguin, 1994)
* ''Green Grey Rain'' (Piwaiwaka Press, 2021)
Novels:
* ''Oracles and Miracles'' (Penguin, 1987)
* ''The Siren Celia'' (Penguin, 1989)
* ''The Shining City'' (Penguin, 1991)
* ''Gardens of Fire'' (Penguin, 1993)
* ''Mum'' (Penguin, 1995)
* ''Blue Blood'' (Penguin, 1997)
* ''Sheng Xian Qu Ji'' (Yi-wen Shanghai, 2002)
* ''Shanghai Boy'' (Random House, 2006)
* ''Bangs'' (Penguin, 2013)
* ''Pru Goes Troppo'' (Piwaiwaka Press, 2020)
History:
* ''A Southern Gentry'' (AH & AW Reed, 1980, 1986)
* ''A New History of Canterbury'' (John McIindoe, 1982)
* ''Pleasures of the Flesh,'' (Reed Methuen, 1984)
* ''New Zealand Working People'' (Dunmore Press, 1990)
* ''The Rich'' (Penguin, 1996)
* ''Niu Xilan de Wenxue Lucheng'' (Unitas Taipei, 2004)
* ''Diggers, Hatters and Whores'' (Random House, 2008)
* ''The Great Wrong War: New Zealand Society in the First World War'' (Random House, 2010)
* ''People, People, People'' (David Bateman, 2011)
* ''White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand 1790-1950'' (Otago University Press, 2014)
* ''Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War'' (Otago University Press, 2017)
References
External links
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Biography on the New Zealand Book Council sitePersonal website
1952 births
New Zealand male short story writers
New Zealand male novelists
Living people
20th-century New Zealand historians
University of Canterbury alumni
Australian National University alumni
Writers from Christchurch
20th-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand novelists
International Writing Program alumni
20th-century New Zealand short story writers
21st-century New Zealand short story writers
21st-century New Zealand historians
20th-century New Zealand male writers
21st-century New Zealand male writers
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