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Emily Justine Perkins MNZM (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author.

Emily Perkins MNZM
Perkins in October 2012
Born	Emily Justine Perkins 1970 (age 51–52) Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation	Writer
Website
www.emilyperkinsauthor.com

Education

Perkins was born in Christchurch.[1] She graduated from Toi Whakaari with a Diploma in Acting in 1989.[2] She also studied writing at Victoria University.[1]

Writing career

Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories.

Perkins' novels are Leave Before You Go (Picador, 1998), The New Girl (Picador, 2001), Novel About My Wife (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008), and The Forrests (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012).

A longtime resident of London, Perkins lived in Auckland where she was employed by both The University of Auckland as a creative writing tutor and AUT University as a lecturer. She now lives in Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters.[3]

Awards

Not Her Real Name and Other Stories was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Award and won the Best First Book (Fiction) Award. Subsequently, it also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.[4]

Novel About My Wife won the 2009 Montana Book Awards and the Believer Book Award.

The Forrests was tipped by the Hay Festival to win the 2012 Man Booker Prize,[5] but failed to reach the long list.

Perkins was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to literature.[6]

Publications

• Perkins, Emily (1998). Leave Before You Go. Picador. ISBN 978-0330353076.
• Perkins, Emily (2002). The New Girl. Picador. ISBN 978-0330376013.
• Perkins, Emily (2008). Novel About My Wife. Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 1596911662.
• Perkins, Emily (2012). The Forrests. Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 978-1608196777.

References

External links

• Official website
• New Zealand Book Council biography
• 2008 Interview at books site Pickle Me This
• Interview with Emily Perkins on her first play Standing Room Only, Radio New Zealand National, 2015

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