Lisa Greenwood

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Lisa Greenwood (born 1955) is a New Zealand novelist. She was the 1990 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards.[1]

Early life

Greenwood was born in Westmere, Auckland. She lives in Auckland and has one daughter, born in 1977.[2] She began writing full-time when her daughter started school in 1983, and preferred to write her novels by hand rather than using a word processor or typewriter.[3]

Literary career

Greenwood's first novel, The Roundness of Eggs, was published in 1986.

The Guardian, commented that it was an "auspicious start for a young New Zealand novelist, following in the tradition of Janet Frame", and observed that it was interesting that a young women should "choose to explore an older woman's problems".[6] The Press noted that "rarely are first novels so well shaped, with language, imagery and incident all contributing to the overall form of the book".[7]

Her second novel, Daylight Burning, was published in 1990.[8] This book is described by the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature as " a powerful and darkly bizarre account of an Auckland businessman whose yuppie life is transformed by an apparently prophetic vision of Auckland destroyed by nuclear holocaust".[2]

In 1990, Greenwood spent time working on a novel in

Menton, France as the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which she intended to be a historical novel about women in religious life set in medieval times.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship". The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  2. ^
    OCLC 865265749
    . Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Mansfield fellowship winner writes by hand". The Press. 23 November 1989. p. 14. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  4. ISBN 978-0-9086-3617-4
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  5. ISBN 978-0-7043-4140-1
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  6. ^ Willis, Pauline (9 August 1988). "Bulletin: The Roundness of Eggs by Lisa Greenwood (Women's Press, £4.50)". The Guardian. p. 16.
  7. ^ Quigley, Margaret (18 October 1986). "Accomplished first novel". The Press. p. 21. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  8. ISBN 978-1-8695-4011-1
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