Christine Johnston (writer) explained

Christine Johnston
Birth Date:	4 January 1950
Birth Place:	Dunedin, New Zealand
Genre:	Fiction, young adult
Notableworks:	Blessed Art Thou Among Women
Awards:	Heinemann Read Fiction Award

Christine Johnston (born 4 January 1950) is a novelist from New Zealand.

Background

Johnston was born 4 January 1950 in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[1] She was educated at St Dominic's College and the University of Otago.^[2]

Works

Johnston writes fiction for adults and young adults, both novels and short stories. Her fiction has been broadcast on national radio and appeared in journals, including Landfall, Metro, and Sport. Her writing is often set in the suburbs and towns of New Zealand and deals with everyday aspects of life and interactions, including the Themes also included childhood, adolescence and adulthood.^{[3] [4]}

Novels

• Blessed Art Though Among Women (1991)
• Goodbye Molly McGuire (1994), young adult novel
• The Haunting of Lara Lawson (1995), young adult novel
• A Friend of Jack McGuire (1996), young adult novel
• The Shark Bell (2002)

Short stories

• The End of the Century (1999)

Her reflections on Catholisim are included in the book, The Source of the Song.

Awards

Her novel, Blessed Art Though Among Women, won the Heinemann Reed Fiction Award in 1990. In 1994 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.^[5] She was the winner of the Unity Books Very Short Story Collection in 2003.^[6]

Further reading

• Short stories available through the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
• A discussion with Christine Johnston on Christchurch Library's Interviewswith NZ Children's Authors
• Interview with Johnston as part of Burns Fellowship 50th Anniversary

Notes and References

1. News: Interview with Christine Johnston. Christchurch City Libraries. 2 November 2017. en-US.
2. Book: Williams, Mark. The Source of the Song: New Zealand Writers on Catholicism. Victoria University Press. 1995. 9780864732873.
3. Web site: Christine Johnston. New Zealand Book Council. 2 November 2017.
4. Web site: The End of the Century and other stories. Catalogue – Canterbury University Press. 3 November 2017.
5. Web site: The Robert Burns Fellowship. Otago Fellows, University of Otago. en-nz. 2 November 2017. 10 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130210171924/http://www.otago.ac.nz/otagofellows/allprevious_burns.html. dead.
6. Web site: The Unity Books Very Short Story Competition. nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. 3 November 2017.