Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox joined us at this years Leipzig Book Fair. She is one of New Zealand's most successful contemporary fiction writers. Her writing draws from a variety of genres and she has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas.

Her best known novel, The Vintner's Luck (1998), was a huge success with readers and critics alike, winning the Deutz Medal for Fiction and the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Prize (2001), and in 2009 was made into a film.

The two volumes from Knox’s first young adult series, The Dreamhunter Duet (Dreamhunter and Dreamquake) were described as a “Mansfield-meets-Mahy fantasy” and highly-awarded. In 2008 she published The Love School, an anthology of her non-fiction writing.

Knox was the recipient of a 2000 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award and was awarded an ONZM for her services to literature in 2002.

Her forthcoming novel, Wake, is a suspenseful supernatural thriller revolving around a horrible disaster which occurs in a New Zealand town. Survivors find themselves trapped in town of corpses as they try to solve the mystery of the event.

New Zealand Book Council biography
Elizabeth Knox's website
@elizabethknoxnz
Arts Foundation profile
Works in the NZ Electronic Text Centre

Wake

Victoria University Press Publication July 2012
Approximately 300 pages, 210 x 138 mm, Paperback
World rights available, excluding New Zealand
For New Zealand rights enquiries and translation inquiries: Fergus Barrowman, fergus.barrowman@vuw.ac.nz
For enquiries about world English language rights, excluding New Zealand: Natasha Fairweather, nfairweather@APWatt.co.uk
For more information on this publisher, please visit www.victoria.ac.nz/vup