Stevan Eldred-Grigg

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Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a New Zealand author of thirteen novels, eleven history books and various essays and short stories. His works of fiction and non-fiction explore the West Coast, Canterbury, the wider South Island and the whole of New Zealand. He also writes about Samoa, Shanghai, Germany, and Australia. [1]

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In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history PhD thesis at Australian National University called 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914' [2]

In 1987 he published his first novel, Oracles and Miracles, the story of two sisters growing up in Christchurch before and during World War II. [3] It won second place in the 1988 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards and subsequently was adapted for stage and radio. [4] In 2020 Helen Mae Innes added zombies to the book creating Oracles & Miracles & Zombies published by Piwaiwaka Press. [5]

Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when Oracles and Miracles, was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹. [6] [3]

Stevan's writing shows he is passionate about freedom and democracy. Freedom and democracy, equality and inequality, justice and injustice, are questions at the heart of all his written works. He writes about class, ethnicity, gender, and many other topics in his numerous non-fiction works. [7]

He was winner of the Blackball Writer's Residency in 2020, and winner of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award in 2019. [8]

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References

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  2. ↑ Eldred-Grigg, Stevan Treleaven (1978). "The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914". doi:10.25911/5d739711d8eb0.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. 1 2 "Oracles and Miracles". Stevan Eldred-Grigg. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Penguin". Penguin. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Oracles & Miracles & Zombies". Piwaiwaka Press. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Chinese Edition of New Zealand's First Contemporary Novel Released in China". en.people.cn. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "SEG non-fiction". Stevan Eldred-Grigg. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "awards". NZSA. Retrieved 29 September 2023.



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