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Rachael King (born 1970) is an author from New Zealand.

Background

King was born in 1970, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2001 she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington.[1]

King is a bass guitarist and has played with several bands on the Flying Nun label.[1][2]

King's father is the historian and author Michael King and her brother is filmmaker Jonathan King.[3]

Works

King has published three novels:

  • The Sound of Butterflies (2006, Random House)
  • Magpie Hall (2009, Random House)
  • Red Rocks (2012, Random House), novel for children
  • The Grimmelings (2024, Allen & Unwin)

Short stories by King have been published in several anthologies including in Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers[4] and Creative Juices.[5]

In 2013, King became Literary Director of the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival.[1][2] She was a judge for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2017.[6]

Awards

In 2007, King's first novel The Sound of Butterflies won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[7]

Her novel for children, Red Rocks, was shortlisted for the Junior Fiction category in the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards[8] and won the LIANZA Esther Glen Award.[9]

King was the 2008 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury.[10] She has also won the 2005 Lilian Ida Smith Award.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Rachael King". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b Matthews, Philip (9 July 2016). "National portrait: Rachael King, literary director". The Press. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Biography". Michael King writers Centre. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  4. ^ Lay, Graeme; Stratford, Stephen, eds. (2005). Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers. Random House. ISBN 9781869417413.
  5. ^ Neale, Emma, ed. (2002). Creative Juices. HarperCollins. ISBN 9781869504106.
  6. ^ "2017 Awards Judges". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  8. ^ "New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards – finalists announced". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  9. ^ "LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 23 November 2017.

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