Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a New Zealand author of ten novels, eleven history books and various essays and short stories.

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Writings

In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history PhD thesis at Australian National University called 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914' [1]

In 1987 he published his first novel, Oracles and Miracles, the story of two sisters growing up in Christchurch before and during World War II.[2]

Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when Oracles and Miracles, was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹.[3][2]

Bibliography

Memoirs:

• My History, I Think (Penguin, 1994)
• Green Grey Rain (Piwaiwaka Press, 2021)

Novels:

• Oracles and Miracles (Penguin, 1987)
• The Siren Celia (Penguin, 1989)
• The Shining City (Penguin, 1991)
• Gardens of Fire (Penguin, 1993)
• Mum (Penguin, 1995)
• Blue Blood (Penguin, 1997)
• Sheng Xian Qu Ji (Yi-wen Shanghai, 2002)
• Shanghai Boy (Random House, 2006)
• Bangs (Penguin, 2013)
• Pru Goes Troppo (Piwaiwaka Press, 2020)

History:

• A Southern Gentry (AH & AW Reed, 1980, 1986)
• A New History of Canterbury (John McIindoe, 1982)
• Pleasures of the Flesh, (Reed Methuen, 1984)
• New Zealand Working People (Dunmore Press, 1990)
• The Rich (Penguin, 1996)
• Niu Xilan de Wenxue Lucheng (Unitas Taipei, 2004)
• Diggers, Hatters and Whores (Random House, 2008)
• The Great Wrong War: New Zealand Society in the First World War (Random House, 2010)
• People, People, People (David Bateman, 2011)
• White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand 1790-1950 (Otago University Press, 2014)
• Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War (Otago University Press, 2017)

References

External links

• "Chinese Edition of New Zealand's First Contemporary Novel Released in China". People's Daily. 5 August 2002. Retrieved 30 December 2006.
• "CLL Writer's Awards". New Zealand Book Council. 14 December 2006. Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2006.
• Biography on the New Zealand Book Council site
• Personal website

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