Elizabeth Pulford

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Elizabeth Pulford
Born16 February 1943
Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealand
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Elizabeth Pulford

Elizabeth Pulford is a writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction for children, teenagers and adults. Several of her books have been shortlisted for awards, and many of her short stories have won or been highly commended in national competitions. She lives in Outram, Otago, New Zealand.

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Biography

Elizabeth Pulford was born on 16 February 1943 in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] After her father died, her mother brought their four children by ship back to New Zealand. [3] From the age of two, Pulford grew up in Dunedin and was later educated there. [4] She has had a number of jobs including typist, cleaner, ice cream seller in a cinema and hot dog seller. [1] [5]

She started to write in her early 40s after attending a night class for creative writing run by teacher Charles Croot. [6] Since then, she has written and published more than 65 books. Her stories, poetry and articles for children and adults have been included in anthologies and in Poems in the Waiting Room, published in the School Journal and in newspapers, magazines and journals and broadcast on Radio New Zealand.

Elizabeth Pulford is married with two children and two grandchildren. [1] She lives in Outram, Otago. [6]

Awards and prizes

Many of her short stories for adults have won or been highly commended for competitions. She has won the Timaru Herald / Aoraki Festival Short Story Competition in 1990, the New Zealand Women's Writers Society Christine Jefferson Award in 1990, the South Island Writers Association Dame Ngaio Marsh Competition in 1989 and 1993, the Joan Faulkner Blake Memorial Competition in 1996 and the Dunedin Library Centennial Romantic Competition in 2008. She was runner-up for the BBC Commonwealth Competition in 1997 and shortlisted for the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Competition in 1998 and 2007. [7] [6]

Several of her books have been named as Storylines Notable Books. The Memory Tree (1997), Call of the Cruins (2000) and Tussock (2011) were shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Finding Monkey Moon was shortlisted in two categories (the Picture Book award and the Russell Clark Illustration Award) in the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

In 2007, she was awarded the 2007 Ohau House Writer’s Retreat residency. [6]

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  3. ↑ "The Treasury Interviews: Ashlee interviews Elizabeth Pulford". Poetry Box. 23 October 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Authors & Illustrators: Elizabeth Pulford". Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "More About Me". Elizabeth Pulford Writer. Archived from the original on 8 February 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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  7. ↑ "Short Stories and histories thereof". Elizabeth Pulford Writer. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. ↑ "Broken by Elizabeth Pulford Book Trailer". YouTube. Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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