Lisa Greenwood (born 1955) is a New Zealand novelist. She was the 1990 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards.[1]
Greenwood was born in Westmere, New Zealand. She lives in Auckland and has one daughter, born in 1977.[2]
Greenwood's first novel, The Roundness of Eggs, was published in 1986.[3] It is the story of a 52-year-old woman undergoing a psychological crisis.[2] A second edition was published in the UK by feminist publishing company The Women's Press.[4] Journalist Pauline Willis, reviewing the novel for The Guardian, commented that it was an "auspicious start for a young New Zealand novelist, following in the tradition of Janet Frame", and observed that it was interesting that a young women should "choose to explore an older woman's problems".[5]
Her second novel, Daylight Burning, was published in 1990.[6] This book is described by the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature as " a powerful and darkly bizarre account of an Auckland businessman whose yuppie life is transformed by an apparently prophetic vision of Auckland destroyed by nuclear holocaust".[2]
In 1990, Greenwood spent time working on a novel in Menton, France as the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.[2]
Katherine Mansfield Menton fellows | |
---|---|
|
Authority control ![]() |
|
---|
![]() | This article about a New Zealand writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |