Fiona Kidman

Biography

Dame Fiona Kidman is a leading contemporary novelist, short story writer and poet.

Kidman has won numerous awards, and she has been the recipient of fellowships, grants and other significant honours, as well as being a consistent advocate for New Zealand writers and literature.

She is the President of Honour for the New Zealand Book Council, and has been awarded an OBE and a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature.

Praise for Fiona Kidman

‘In her craft and her storytelling, and in her compassionate, gutsy, tough expression of female experience, [Kidman] is the best we have.’ New Zealand Listener