Sue Reidy is a New Zealand author and designer.
Sue Reidy | |
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| Language | English, Italian |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, short stories |
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| Official website | |
Reidy has a professional background in graphic design and illustration, including designing book jackets.[1] She has taught at the Auckland University of Technology and been a judge in the PANZ Book Design Awards.[2]
Published fiction by Reidy includes:
- Modettes and Other Stories (1988, Penguin Books NZ), short story collection
- The Visitation (1996, Scribner), novel
- Four Ways to Become a Woman (2000, Transworld), novel
- L'Amore Secondo Miranda (2010, Newton Compton Editori), novel
Reidy's work has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including: New Zealand Listener, Metro, Landfall, Sunday Star Times, Australian Women’s Weekly, Penguin 25 New Fiction (Penguin, 1998), Penguin Book of Contemporary Short Stories (Penguin, 1989), Wee Girls (1996, Spinifex Press), and Good-bye to Romance (1989, Allen & Unwin).[1] Her work was commended by Paula Green in the 2007 Best New Zealand Poems collection.[3]
Awards edit
Reidy won the 1987 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award. In 1995 she was the runner-up for the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award.[1]
The Visitation was shortlisted in fiction section of the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[1]
In 2000 she was awarded the Buddle Finlay Sargeson Writers Fellowship, with James Brown and Charlotte Grimshaw.[4]
In 2015, her manuscript Small Steps to Happiness was shortlisted in the Ashton Wylie Book and Manuscript Awards.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Sue Reidy". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "PANZ Book Design Awards Archive". PANZ Book Design Awards. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2007". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship". Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "Book Awards". Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2017.