Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox was born in 1959 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.

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

Her sister, Sara Knox, has a first novel, "The Orphan Gunner", a queer romance set in wartime England, published by Giramondo, Australia, 2007.

List of Publications

* "After Z-Hour" (1987)
* "Paremata" (1989)
* "Treasure" (1992)
* "Pomare" (1994)
* "Glamour and the Sea" (1996)
* "Tawa" (1998)

* "The Vintners’ Luck" (VUP, 1998; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (USA), 1998; Chatto & Windus (UK & Commonwealth), 1999; Vintage (UK & Commonwealth), 2000; Picador USA, 2000; "Der Engel mit den dunklen Flügeln", Luchterhand (Germany), 2000; "Vinbondens skytsengel", Gyldendal (Norway), 2001; "Het geluk van de wijnboer", Muelenhof (Netherlands), 2001; "La Suerte del Viticultor", Seix Barral (Spain), 2001; "La veine du vigneron", Le Fil Invisible (France), 2003; Hebrew Language ed, Kinneret, Zmora Bitan, 2004)

* "The High Jump" (2000)

* "Black Oxen" (VUP, 2001; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US), 2001; Chatto & Windus (UK & Commonwealth), 2001; Picador USA, 2002; Vintage (UK & Commonwealth), 2002)

* "Billie’s Kiss" (VUP, 2002; Ballantine (US), 2002; Chatto & Windus (UK & Commonwealth), 2002; Vintage (UK & Commonwealth), 2003; "Billies Kus", Muelenhof (Netherlands), 2002; "Der Feuerkuss", Rowohlt (Germany), 2003)

* "Daylight" (VUP, 2003; Ballantine (US), 2003; HarperCollins Australia, 2004)

* "Dreamhunter" (Book 1 of the Dreamhunter Duet) (HarperCollins Australia/NZ, 2005; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US), 2006); as "The Rainbow Opera", (Faber & Faber, 2005); Penguin (Canada) 2006; NHK, (Japan) 2006)

* "Dreamquake" (Book 2 of the Dreamhunter Duet) (2007: HarperCollins Australia/NZ; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US); "The Dream Quake", Faber & Faber (UK), Penguin (Canada), NHK, (Japan))

External References

* Elizabeth Knox biography on the New Zealand Book Council website: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/knoxelizabeth.html


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