New Zealand Writer
1. Amber Reeves (1887)
New Zealand Writer
Although she worked as a book reviewer for Vogue magazine and as a writer for the Saturday Review, this twentieth-century author is remembered best for such feminist and socialist-themed works...
2. Janet Frame (1924)
New Zealand Writer
A New Zealand-born author, poet, and novelist, she is known for such works as Owls Do Cry and The Pocket Mirror. She was a recipient of the Hubert Church Prose...
3. Paula Morris (1965)
New Zealand Writer
New Zealand-born fiction writer known for such works as Rangatira (novel), Dark Souls (young adult book), and Forbidden Cities (short stories).
4. Rosie Scott (1948)
New Zealand Writer
New Zealand-based author whose notable works of fiction include Feral City and Faith Singer. She also published an award-winning play, Say Thank You To The Lady, as well as a...
5. Eleanor Catton (1985)
New Zealand Writer
Eleanor Catton MNZM is a Canadian-born New Zealand author. Her second novel The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
6. Charles Brasch (1909)
New Zealand Writer
Charles Orwell Brasch was a New Zealand poet literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal Landfall. Brasch was born in Dunedin the son...
7. Essie Summers (1912)
New Zealand Writer
Essie Summers was a New Zealand author who wrote so vividly of the people and landscape of her native country that she was offered The Order of the British Empire...
8. V. M. Jones (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Victoria Mary Jones is a children's author. She was born in Zambia and educated in Zimbabwe. She completed a BA in English Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of...
9. Fiona Kidman (1940)
New Zealand Writer
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman DNZM OBE is a New Zealand novelist poet scriptwriter and short story author. Kidman grew up in Northland and worked as a librarian in Rotorua after...
10. David Jubermann (1982)
New Zealand Writer
David Jubermann is a New Zealand writer and the author of Shiftlight and Drift Race. He was born in Lindau Germany and migrated with his family to New Zealand in...
11. Mike Riddell (1953)
New Zealand Writer
Michael Riddell is a Dunedin New Zealand-based writer.
12. Susan Napier (1954)
New Zealand Writer
American scholar of Japanese art see Susan J. Napier. Susan Napier was a popular New Zealand writer of over 30 romance novels in various Mills & Boon category lines since...
13. Tim Jones (writer) (1959)
New Zealand Writer
Tim Jones is a New Zealand writer and poet. Born in Cleethorpes near Grimsby England Jones moved to Southland New Zealand at a young age. He was educated at the...
14. Elizabeth Knox (1959)
New Zealand Writer
Elizabeth Fiona Knox ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels three autobiographical novella and a collection of essays. Her best known works are The Vintner's...
15. Tania Roxborogh (1965)
New Zealand Writer
Tania Kelly Roxborogh is a New Zealand author who currently lives in Dunedin. She is the author of over 25 books including Third Degree Twenty Minute Shakespeare and Fat Like...
16. Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) (1955)
New Zealand Writer
Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand author. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.
17. Lauren Kim Roche (1961)
New Zealand Writer
Lauren Kim Roche is a bestselling author and physician. She was born in Miramar New Zealand a suburb of Wellington. In 1991 she obtained her medical degree from the University...
18. Neil Cross (1969)
New Zealand Writer
Neil Cross is a British novelist and scriptwriter.
19. Nalini Singh (author) (1977)
New Zealand Writer
Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of numerous paranormal romance novels.
20. Catherine Chidgey (1970)
New Zealand Writer
Catherine Chidgey grew up in the Hutt Valley. She has degrees in creative writing psychology and German literature. In 1997 Catherine was awarded the Adam Foundation Prize for her portfolio...
21. Philippa Ballantine (1971)
New Zealand Writer
Philippa Jane Ballantine is a contemporary New Zealand author of speculative fiction and an avid podcaster. She now lives in Manassas Virginia with her husband and collaborator Tee Morris.
22. Jennifer Compton (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington New Zealand in 1949. In the early '70s she emigrated to Sydney Australia with her husband Matthew O'Sullivan. They now live in Carrum in...
23. Bernadette Hall (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Bernadette Hall is a New Zealand writer and poet. She was raised in what she describes as a small-city Catholic community that was proud theatrical and pretty much enclosed. After...
24. Rex Hunter (1889)
New Zealand Writer
Maurice Reginald Hunter was a New Zealand poet playwright and fiction writer. He is best known for his work as a journalist in America as well as for his marriage...
25. C. K. Stead (1932)
New Zealand Writer
Christian Karlson Stead ONZ CBE is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels poetry short stories and literary criticism. One of Karl Stead's novels Smith's Dream provided the basis...
26. Keri Hulme (1947)
New Zealand Writer
Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer. Her only novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985.
27. Fiona Farrell (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
ONZM is a New Zealand poet fiction writer and playwright. Her latest novel Limestone was published in April 2009. The Broken Book was published by Auckland University Press 2011.
28. Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915)
New Zealand Writer
Sydney Goodsir Smith was a Scottish poet artist dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans and was a major figure of the Scottish...
29. George E. Dewar (1895)
New Zealand Writer
George E. Dewar was a New Zealand poet writer teacher farmer worker and First World War soldier. Best remembered for his 1953 autobiographical book Chaslands about the early pioneering...
30. Bub Bridger (1924)
New Zealand Writer
Noeline Edith Bub Bridger was a poet and short story writer who often performed her own work and drew inspiration from her Maori Irish and English ancestry. Her writing was...
31. Charles Purnell (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Charles William Purnell was a New Zealand soldier journalist lawyer and publisher of political and scientific texts.
32. Tze Ming Mok (1978)
New Zealand Writer
Tze Ming Mok born 1978) is a fiction writer and sociopolitical commentator and has been a prominent New Zealand Asian community advocate.
33. Gregory O'Brien (1961)
New Zealand Writer
Gregory O’Brien is a New Zealand poet painter and editor.
34. Marilyn Duckworth (1935)
New Zealand Writer
Marilyn Duckworth OBE is a novelist poet and short story writer. She has published sixteen novels one novella a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has...
35. J. H. Haslam (1874)
New Zealand Writer
Reverend J. H. ) Haslam was a New Zealand Methodist Church minister poet editor and Wesleyan Church historian. His edition of Rev. G. S. Harper’s gold-digging diaries in Westland is...
36. Lauris Edmond (1924)
New Zealand Writer
Lauris Dorothy Edmond OBE was a New Zealand poet and writer.
37. Dennis List (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Dennis List was a New Zealand poet editor and novelist. List was born in Wellington to a professional family whose name was originally Liszt but grew up in Rotorua. He...
38. Ruth Dallas (1919)
New Zealand Writer
Ruth Minnie Mumford CBE better known by her pen name Ruth Dallas was a New Zealand poet and childrens' author.
39. Barry Mitcalfe (Unknow)
New Zealand Writer
Barry Mitcalfe was a New Zealand poet editor and peace activist. Born 31 March 1930 in Wellington New Zealand Mitcalfe studied at Victoria University of Wellington where he received a...
40. Damien Wilkins (writer) (1963)
New Zealand Writer
Damien Wilkins is a New Zealand novelist short story writer and poet.
41. Paul Cleave (1974)
New Zealand Writer
Paul Cleave is an author from New Zealand.
42. Linda McNabb (1963)
New Zealand Writer
Linda McNabb is a British-born New Zealand children's author who has written several fantasy novels for children and young adults.
