Catherine Chidgey’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Other honours include the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for The Wish Child. Her latest novel, Remote Sympathy, was shortlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK.

Verb Festival 2022 appearances:
Rūbarū: Sara Baume with Catherine Chidgey (digital series available from Oct 11).
Beginning & Ending, Sat 5 Nov, 7:15pm. (LitCrawl)
Birds, Fables, Carnivals: Catherine Chidgey, Sun 6 Nov, 1:30pm.

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