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Kelly Ana Morey
New Zealand novelist and poet (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kelly Ana Morey (born 1968) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.
Background
Born in 1969, Morey is of Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, and Pākehā descent and grew up in Papua New Guinea.[1][2] She received a BA in English, MA in contemporary Māori art, an MALit, and is pursuing a PhD.[3][4] She currently lives in Kaipara.[5]
Publications
Fiction
Novels by Morey include:
- Bloom (2003, Penguin)
- Grace is Gone (2005, Penguin)
- On an Island, with Consequences Dire (2007, Penguin)
- Quinine (2010, Huia)
- Daylight Second (2016, HarperCollins)
Short stories and poems by Morey have been included in 100 Short, Short Stories,[6] anthologies of Māori writing by Huia Publishers,[3] Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English,[7] and Puna Wai Korer: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English.[8]
Non-fiction
Morey has served as an oral historian at the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum since 2002.[3] She is the author of Service to the Sea, a non-fiction work about the Royal New Zealand Navy's history.[9]
Morey published How to Read a Book in 2005, a reflection on books that have influenced her life and writing.[10] In 2013, she documented the history of St Cuthbert's College in St Cuthbert’s College 100 Years,[11] She is also contributor to The Spinoff[5] and the equestrian magazine Show Circuit.[8]
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Awards
Bloom won the 2004 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[12] Grace is Gone was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize for fiction[1][2] She was the winner of the 2005 Janet Frame Award for Fiction.[13]
In 2003, Morey received the Todd Young Writers’ Bursary.[3] In 2014 she received the Māori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre during which time she developed her novel Daylight Second.[14][1]
References
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