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Elizabeth Knox


New Zealand (b.1959)

Elizabeth Knox was born in Wellington, New Zealand and currently resides in Kelburn, Wellington. Her best known work is The Vintner's Luck, which won the Deutz Medal for Fiction, Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, was translated into French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Dutch and Hebrew, and is being made into a film by Niki Caro. It was also awarded the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. More recently she has published the Dreamhunter Duet, a pair of YA/Crossover fantasy novels set in an alternate New Zealand-like republic, where dreamhunters explore 'The Place' in order to catch dreams which they then share with the paying public in large theatre-like dream palaces. The first book of the duet, Dreamhunter, won the Esther Glen Award and was an ALA Best Book for 2006. Its sequel, Dreamquake, was a Michael L. Printz Award honor book for 2008, and an ALA best book for the same year.

Elizabeth Knox is married to Fergus Barrowman, a publisher at Victoria University Press. Her son, Jack Barrowman, is a student at Wellington College.
 


Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
 
Series
High Jump
   Paremata (1989)
   Pomare (1994)
   Tawa (1998)
   The High Jump (2001)
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Vintner's Luck
   1. The Vintner's Luck (1998)
   2. The Angel's Cut (2009)
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Dreamhunter Duet
   1. Dreamhunter (2005)
     aka The Rainbow Opera
   2. The Dream Quake (2007)
   Mortal Fire (2013)
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Novels
   After Z-hour (1987)
   Treasure (1992)
   Glamour and the Sea (1996)
   Black Oxen (2001)
   Billie's Kiss (2002)
   Daylight (2003)
   Wake (2013)
   The Absolute Book (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   Monsters in the Garden (2021) (with David Larsen)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Elizabeth Knox
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Steampunk! (2011)
An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
edited by
Gavin J Grant and Kelly Link

Award nominations
2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Mortal Fire
2008 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : The Dream Quake


Elizabeth Knox recommends
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She's a Killer (2021)
Kirsten McDougall
"quipped with an exhilaratingly badly-behaved protagonist, She's a Killer builds from a slice of very strange life into a thriller by way of a succession of stunning comic set pieces. You'll laugh - a lot. And then you'll cry and be really surprised about it since you were laughing so much."
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Alcestis (2010)
Katharine Beutner
"A novel that is as intoxicating and hypnotic as the sacred smoke inhaled by the oracles."

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