Tina Shaw (born 1961) is a

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author. Shaw was born in 1961, in

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, New Zealand and grew up in

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and

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Works

Novels published by Shaw include: * ''Birdie'' (1996) * ''Dreams of America'' (1997) * ''City of Reeds'' (2000) * ''Paradise'' (2002) * ''The Black Madonna'' (2005, Penguin) * ''The Children's Pond'' (2014, Pointer Press Ltd) * ''Make a Hard Fist'' (2017, OneTree House) * ''Ephemera'' (2020, Cloud Ink Press) She edited the travel writing collection, ''A Passion for Travel'' (1998) and with Jack Ross, the anthology ''Myths of the 21st Century'' (Reed, 2006).

Young adult fiction

* ''About Griffen’s Heart'' (2009, Longacre) * ''Ursa'' (2019, Walker Books)

Children's fiction

* ''Brenda's Planetary Holiday'' (2006) * ''Fluff Helps Out'' (Puffin, 2006) * ''Into the Hinterland'' (2008, Pearson Education) * ''Dogs of the Hinterland'' (2008, Pearson Education) * ''Koevasi'' (2008, Pearson Education)

Awards

Shaw received the 1999 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the

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2001 Berlin Writers Residency. She was the 2005 writer in residence at the

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. In 2003, her story 'Coarse Fishing' was runner-up in the Sunday-Star Times Short Story Competition. ''About Griffen’s Heart'' (2009) was listed as a 2010 Notable Young Adult Fiction Book by Storylines and was shortlisted in the 2010 LIANZA Children and Young Adult Book Awards. ''The Children's Pond'' (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015

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. In 2018, Shaw won the Tessa Duder Award for her manuscript ''Ursa''. She won the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for her unpublished manuscript, ''A House Built on Sand'', to be published by

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References

External links

Official website
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