Catherine Chidgey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Catherine Chidgey
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Apr 8, 1970(1970-04-08)
Age	54
Birthplace	Auckland
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Auckland Region
Horoscope	Aries

Catherine Chidgey Biography

Catherine Chidgey is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on April 8, 1970 in Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand.

Catherine Chidgey was born in Auckland and grew up in the Hutt Valley. She attended St Michael’s Primary School in Taita, and Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt. At Victoria University of Wellington she completed a BSc in Psychology, and a BA in German Language and Literature. In 1993 she was awarded a DAAD scholarship to study at the Freie Universität Berlin. She returned to Victoria University in 1997 to complete an MA in Creative Writing under Bill Manhire.

Her debut novel, In a Fishbone Church, was published in 1998 and was widely praised in New Zealand and overseas, winning the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards in 1998. The writer Nick Hornby said “Catherine Chidgey is a wonderful new talent, and In a Fishbone Church marks the beginning of what promises to be a glorious literary career.” Louis de Bernières called the novel “warm, subtle and evocative. You will be thinking about it long after you have finished reading.” In 1999 In a Fishbone Church won Best First Book at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region). It also won a Betty Trask Award for a first book (UK), and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (UK).

Catherine Chidgey Net Worth

Catherine Chidgey is one of the richest Novelist from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Catherine Chidgey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Catherine Chidgey (born 8 April 1970) is a New Zealand novelist and short- story writer. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region); the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. She lives near Hamilton in New Zealand.

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Chidgey has translated more than a dozen children’s picture books from the German for Gecko Press. In November 2019, OneTree House published her first original picture book, Jiffy, Cat Detective, illustrated by Astrid Matijasevich.

Facts & Trivia

Nathan Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Catherine Chidgey celebrates birthday on April 8 of every year.

Top Facts about Catherine Chidgey

1. Catherine Chidgey is a New Zealand author.
2. She has published six novels and one collection of short stories.
3. Her novel “The Wish Child” was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
4. Chidgey won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2002 for her novel “In a Fishbone Church.”
5. She has also won the Janet Frame Fiction Prize and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship.
6. Chidgey’s writing often explores themes of memory, identity, and language.
7. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
8. Chidgey was born in 1970 in Wellington, New Zealand.
9. Her work has been translated into several languages, including German and French.
10. In addition to her fiction writing, she has also written essays and articles for various publications.