Charlotte Grimshaw
Books
Books
Charlotte Grimshaw has been named by the New Zealand Listener as one of the ten best New Zealand writers under forty. In 2000 she was awarded the Buddly Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for literature. She has been a double finalist and prizewinner in the Sunday Star Times short story competition, and in 2006 she won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield award for short fiction. In 2008, Opportunity won the Montana New Zealand Award for Fiction, along with the premier Montana medal for fiction or poetry. Charlotte Grimshaw was also awarded the 2008 Montana prize for Book Reviewer of the Year.
After graduating from Auckland University she practised as a shipping lawyer and then as a criminal lawyer, working for the defence in criminal trials, before leaving the law to write full-time.
Charlotte Grimshaw was born in New Zealand and currently lives in Auckland with her husband and two children.
Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
STARLIGHT PENINSULA 2015 Random House New Zealand | A standalone work or the third in the Lampton novels, Charlotte Grimshaw's powerful novel demonstrates how little separates us and how close we really are. |
SOON 2012 Random House New Zealand | This humane and capacious novel, generous and faithful to its characters in ways that they are not to each other, articulates the ancient idea that to be moral is an act of consciousness, an effort of will. A stand-alone novel that is also a sequel to The Night Book and a continuation of the Simon Lampton story first touched on in Opportunity and Singularity. |
THE NIGHT BOOK 2010 Random House New Zealand | Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards this is an unflinching novel on contemporary NZ society. |
SINGULARITY 2009 Jonathan Cape | Grimshaw's powerful new collection of short stories, further develops the structure she explored in OPPORTUNITY. |
OPPORTUNITY 2007 Vintage | Shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize and won the Montana New Zealand Award for Fiction. |
FOREIGN CITY 2005 Vintage | Anna Devine, a young New Zealand painter living in London, has two chance encounters that set her on a search for answers. |
GUILT 2000 Abacus | The territory of guilt is explored in this powerful new novel... |
PROVOCATION 1999 Abacus | A thriller of passion, prejudice and betrayal. |