Lisa Greenwood

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Lisa Greenwood (born 1955) is a New Zealand novelist. She was the 1990 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards. [1]

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Early life

Greenwood was born in Westmere, New Zealand. She lives in Auckland and has one daughter, born in 1977. [2]

Literary career

Greenwood's first novel, The Roundness of Eggs, was published in 1986. [3] It is the story of a 52-year-old woman undergoing a psychological crisis. [2] A second edition was published in the UK by feminist publishing company The Women's Press. [4] Journalist Pauline Willis, reviewing the novel for The Guardian, commented that it was an "auspicious start for a young New Zealand novelist, following in the tradition of Janet Frame", and observed that it was interesting that a young women should "choose to explore an older woman's problems". [5]

Her second novel, Daylight Burning, was published in 1990. [6] This book is described by the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature as " a powerful and darkly bizarre account of an Auckland businessman whose yuppie life is transformed by an apparently prophetic vision of Auckland destroyed by nuclear holocaust". [2]

In 1990, Greenwood spent time working on a novel in Menton, France as the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. [2]

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References

  1. "Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship". The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 McLeod, Aorewa (2006). "Greenwood, Lisa". In Robinson, Roger; Wattie, Nelson (eds.). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-1917-3519-6. OCLC   865265749 . Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. Greenwood, Lisa (1986). The Roundness of Eggs. Auckland, New Zealand: Benton Ross. ISBN   978-0-9086-3617-4.
  4. Greenwood, Lisa (1988). The Roundness of Eggs. London: The Women's Press. ISBN   978-0-7043-4140-1.
  5. Willis, Pauline (9 August 1988). "Bulletin: The Roundness of Eggs by Lisa Greenwood (Women's Press, £4.50)". The Guardian. p. 16.
  6. Greenwood, Lisa (1990). Daylight Burning. Auckland, New Zealand: Random Century. ISBN   978-1-8695-4011-1.