Emily Perkins (writer)

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Emily Perkins (2012)

Emily Justine Perkins MNZM (* 1970 in Christchurch , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand writer .

Life

Emily Perkins grew up in Auckland and Wellington . After training at the New Zealand Drama School and little success as an actress, apart from some engagements in theater and television, she studied creative writing with Bill Manhire at the Victoria University of Wellington . With her graduation in 1993, she moved to London a year later , where she lived for ten years. She worked briefly for Bloomsbury Publishing and wrote a column for the Independent on Sunday for several years .

She made her debut as a writer in 1996 with the collection of short stories Not Her Real Name and Other Stories . The book received critical acclaim and she was nominated for the New Zealand Book Award and was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1997 . Her first novel Leave Before You Go was published two years later by the British publisher Picador. After a translation by Angela Schumitz , it was published the following year under the German title Das Blau im Augen der Biene by the Munich publishing house Droemer Knaur. She received the Believer Book Award for her third novel, Novel About My Wife , which was published by Bloomsbury Berlin in 2009 after a translation by Ulrike Thiesmeyer under the title Roman über Meine Frau .

Perkins is married to the artist Karl Maughan . The couple have three children together and live in Auckland.

Works (selection)

  • Not Her Real Name and Other Stories. 1996.
  • Leave Before You Go. 1998.
  • The New Girl. 2002.
  • Novel About My Wife. 2008.
  • The Forrests. 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Perkins, Emily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perkins, Emily Justine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Christchurch , New Zealand