Tina Shaw

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Tina Shaw
Born1961 (age 6162)
Auckland, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealander
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Tina Shaw (born 1961) is a New Zealand author.

Shaw was born in 1961, in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in Matangi and Christchurch. [1]

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Works

Novels published by Shaw include:

She edited the travel writing collection, A Passion for Travel (1998) and with Jack Ross, the anthology Myths of the 21st Century (Reed, 2006). [1]

Awards

Shaw received the 1999 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship [2] and the Creative New Zealand 2001 Berlin Writers Residency. [3] She was the 2005 writer in residence at the University of Waikato.

In 2003, her story 'Coarse Fishing' was runner-up in the Sunday-Star Times Short Story Competition. [1]

About Griffen’s Heart (2009) was listed as a 2010 Notable Young Adult Fiction Book by Storylines [4] and was shortlisted in the 2010 LIANZA Children and Young Adult Book Awards. [1] [5]

The Children's Pond (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. [6]

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 She won the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for her unpublished manuscript, A House Built on Sand, to be published by Text Publishing. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tina Shaw". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  2. "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship". Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. "Aucklander Wins Berlin Writers' Residency". Scoop News. 20 July 2001. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  4. "Storylines Notable Books List 2010, for books published in 2009" (PDF). Storylines. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  5. "LIANZA Children's Book Awards 2010". Libraries Act. 4 June 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  6. "Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  7. "Shaw wins 2023 Michael Gifkins prize". Books+Publishing. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.