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| Born | Emily Justine Perkins 1970 (age 52–53) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Emily Justine Perkins MNZM (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author.
Emily Perkins | |
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| Perkins in October 2012 | |
| Born | Emily Justine Perkins 1970 (age 52–53) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Emily Justine Perkins MNZM (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author.
Perkins was born in Christchurch. [1] She graduated from Toi Whakaari with a diploma in acting in 1989. [2] She also studied writing at Victoria University. [1]
Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories.
Perkins' novels are Leave Before You Go (Picador, 1998), The New Girl (Picador, 2001), Novel About My Wife (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008), and The Forrests (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012).
A long-time resident of London, Perkins lived in Auckland where she was employed by both the University of Auckland as a creative writing tutor and Auckland University of Technology as a lecturer. She now lives in Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters. [3]
Perkins presented a television series about books called The Good Word from 2009 to 2012. [4]
Not Her Real Name and Other Stories was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Award and won the Best First Book (Fiction) Award. Subsequently, it also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. [5]
Novel About My Wife won the 2009 Montana Book Awards and the Believer Book Award.
The Forrests was tipped by the Hay Festival to win the 2012 Man Booker Prize, [6] but failed to reach the long list.
Perkins was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to literature. [7]
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