Dianne Ruth Pettis Explained

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.

Background

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]

Works

Novels

Poetry

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:

Awards

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary — Dianne Ruth Pettis. 1 December 2008. New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa. 31 October 2017. en-US.
  2. News: Ruth Pettis. Penguin Books New Zealand. 31 October 2017. en.
  3. Web site: The Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand. Zealand. Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New. www.otago.ac.nz. en-nz. 31 October 2017. 10 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130210171924/http://www.otago.ac.nz/otagofellows/allprevious_burns.html. dead.