Debra Daley Explained

Debra Daley
Birth Place:New Zealand
Website:Official website

Debra Daley is a New Zealand author.

Daley was born in New Zealand and is of Irish heritage.[1] She grew up in the west of Auckland and graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA in English Literature.[2] She currently lives in the Bay of Plenty.[3]

Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas Universal Drive, The Shadow Trader, At the End of the Day, Pristine.

Daley has published three novels, The Revelations of Carey Ravine (2016),[4] Turning the Stones (2014),[5] and The Strange Letter Z (1996).[6] The Revelations of Carey Ravine and Turning the Stones are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her first novel, The Strange Letter Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s.[7] She has also published a number of short stories.

In 1992 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award.[8] She received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship in 2013 with Toa Fraser.[9] In 2005 she was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Deborah Daley: Location as Inspiration for ‘Turning the Stones’. 30 April 2014. Writing.ie. 30 November 2017. en-US.
  2. News: Debra Daley. Academy of New Zealand Literature. 30 November 2017. en-US.
  3. Web site: Debra Daley. Quercus Books. 30 November 2017.
  4. Book: Daley, Debra. The Revelations of Carey Ravine. Heron Book. 2016. 9781782069935.
  5. Book: Debra Daley, Debra. Turning the Stones. Heron Press. 2014. 9781782069898.
  6. Book: Daley, Debra. The Strange Letter Z. Heron Press. 1996. 9780140254099.
  7. Web site: Debra Daley. Historical Writers. en-GB. 30 November 2017.
  8. Web site: Lilian Ida Smith Award Recipients. New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association. 30 November 2017.
  9. News: Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Grimshaw Sargeson. 30 November 2017. en-US.
  10. Web site: Creative New Zealand Grants 2005-2006. Creative New Zealand. 30 November 2017.