Charlotte Grimshaw

Charlotte Grimshaw is a New Zealand novelist who lives in Auckland.

Career

Grimshaw's first book, Provocation (1999), drew on her experience as a criminal lawyer.

Her second book, Guilt (2000), followed the lives of four characters in Auckland in 1987.

Her third novel, Foreign City (2005) is the story of a young New Zealand painter living in London.[1]

Grimshaw’s collection of short stories Opportunity was published in 2007. Opportunity is a series of stories that can be read separately, but contribute to a unified whole. The author says it is ‘a novel with a large cast of characters...each story stands by itself, and at the same time adds to the larger one.'

Her interconnected short story collection, Singularity, a companion volume to Opportunity, was published in 2009 by Random House New Zealand and by Jonathan Cape in the UK.

Grimshaw has also contributed to the following anthologies: Myth of the 21st Century (Reed 2006); The Best New Zealand Fiction Volumes Two, Three, Four and Five (Vintage); The New Zealand Book of the Beach Volumes One and Two (David Ling); Some Other Country (VUP); Second Violins (Vintage, 2008).

Grimshaw's novel "The Night Book" (2010) contains characters from her popular collections Opportunity and Singularity, and follows the lives of a group of Aucklanders, one of whom is a National Party Prime Minister.

Grimshaw's most novel, "Soon" (2012) continues the story of National Party Prime Minister David Hallwright, and has been described as a bold and biting satire on wealth and pretentiousness, and on the current political situation in New Zealand.

Grimshaw's latest novel "Starlight Peninsula" (2015) is a sequel to "Soon", and also introduces a new cast of characters.

Charlotte Grimshaw has said her intention with her last five books has been to create her own version of a Human Comedy, after Balzac - a series of linked novels and short story collections about life in New Zealand.

Grimshaw wrote a monthly column for Metro Magazine for eight years. She regularly contributes book reviews to The New Zealand Listener, and The Spinoff website.

Charlotte Grimshaw has judged the Katherine Mansfield Award and the Sunday Times Short Story Competition.

She is a literary advisor to the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, a fellowship awarded to New Zealand writers by Grimshaw & Co Solicitors.

Prizes and awards

Charlotte Grimshaw was awarded a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2000.

She has been a double finalist and prize winner in the Sunday Star-Times short story competition.

In 2006 she was awarded the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award.

In 2007 she won a place in the Book Council’s Six Pack Prize for her short story, "The Yard Broom", which was published in The Six Pack Volume Two.

In 2007, Opportunity was short-listed for the world’s richest short fiction prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award'

In 2009 Singularity was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award'

In 2007 she was shortlisted for the prize of Montana Fiction Reviewer of the Year. '

In 2008 she was awarded the Fiction award and the Montana medal for Fiction or Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Opportunity.

Charlotte Grimshaw was awarded the 2008 Montana prize for Reviewer of the Year in recognition of her fiction reviews in The New Zealand Listener.

Charlotte Grimshaw won a Qantas media award in 2009 for her Metro column.

In 2011 "The Night Book" was one of three works of fiction shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Award

Charlotte Grimshaw is a finalist in the 2016 Canon Media Awards for Reviewer of the Year.

Partial bibliography

Novels
Short Stories
Short Story Collections

References

  1. ↑ Review of Foreign City Archived June 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
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