Dianne Ruth Pettis | |
Birth Date: | 1955 |
Birth Place: | Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand |
Death Date: | 13 May 2008 |
Death Place: | Otago Peninsula |
Nationality: | New Zealander |
Genre: | fiction, journalist |
Notableworks: | ‘’Like Small Bones’’, The First Touch of Light |
Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955 – 13 May 2008) was a novelist and journalist from New Zealand.
Pettis was born in Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. In addition to her novels, poetry, and short stories, she worked as a journalist, a script writer for the Natural History Unit and a communications manager.[1]
Pettis' poetry and short fiction have been included in Landfall, Sport and Takahe, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. Her work was also included in:
Like Small Bones, was shortlisted for the Best First Book section in the Asia Pacific region for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.[2] In 2006 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.[3]