Laurence Fearnley Explained

Laurence Fearnley
Occupation:writer
Alma Mater:Victoria University of Wellington
Thesis Url:https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Boden_Black_A_Novel_and_With_Axe_and_Pen_in_the_New_Zealand_Alps_Differences_Between_Overseas_and_New_Zealand_Written_Accounts_of_Climbing_Mount_Cook_1882-1920_and_the_Emergence_of_a_New_Zealand_Voice_in_Mountaineering_Literature/17000845/1
Thesis Title:Boden Black (A Novel) and With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps: Differences Between Overseas and New Zealand Written Accounts of Climbing Mount Cook 1882-1920 and the Emergence of a New Zealand Voice in Mountaineering Literature
Thesis Year:2012
Doctoral Advisor:Bill Manhire
John Thomson
Awards:Robert Burns Fellowship

Laurence Fearnley (born 1963) is a New Zealand short-story writer, novelist and non-fiction writer. Several of her books have been shortlisted for or have won awards, both in New Zealand and overseas, including The Hut Builder, which won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. She has also been the recipient of a number of writing awards and residencies including the Robert Burns Fellowship, the Janet Frame Memorial Award and the Artists to Antarctica Programme.

Biography

Laurence Fearnley was born in 1963.[1] Her parents emigrated from England to New Zealand.[2] She grew up in Christchurch, travelled to Europe and later lived in Wellington where she worked as a curator in art galleries and museums.[3] [4]

She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing (2012) from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. For her thesis, she looked at accounts of the first attempts to climb Aoraki/Mount Cook.[5] [6]

Her books, including her trilogy Butler's Ringlet, Edwin and Matilda and Mother's Day, have a strong sense of landscape and are often set in small towns of Southland and Central Otago in southern New Zealand. Her short stories have been broadcast on the radio and published in anthologies and in literary journals, including Sport and Landfall.

Awards and prizes

Fearnley has received a number of awards and grants for her writing and several of her books have been shortlisted for or have won awards. Room was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Edwin and Matilda was longlisted for the Dublin Prize in 2008[7]  and was also runner-up in the fiction category of the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards[8] and was shortlisted for the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.[9] Going Up is Easy was a finalist in the 2015 Banff Mountain Literature Award.[10] Reach was longlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[11]

Fearnley has been twice to Antarctica, first as an Arts Fellow under the Artists to Antarctica Programme in January 2004[12] (her book Degrees of Separation draws on this experience) and again as a tutor with students of the Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury in December 2005.[13] She spent a month in 2006 at the Island of Residencies fellowship in Tasmania[14] and held the Robert Burns Fellowship in 2007.[15]

In 2014, she  took part in Roadwords,[16] a literary tour of southern South Island towns, with three other writers: Pip Adam, Tina Makereti and Lawrence Patchett, who met each other when they were all studying for PhDs at Victoria University.[17] [18]  

In 2016 she received the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award,[19] the NZSA / Auckland Museum Research Grant[20] and the Friends of the Hocken Collections Award.[21]

She was joint winner of the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition for her essay 'Perfume Counter'.[22]

She has taken part in several literary festivals including the Nelson Arts Festival,[23] Tauranga Arts Festival[24] [25] and Word Christchurch 2018.[26] [27]

Fearnley was awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship for 2023–2024.[28]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fearnley, Laurence. November 2016. New Zealand Book Council: Te Kaunihera Pukapuka o Aotearoa. 28 January 2019.
  2. Web site: 2022-06-04 . Laurence Fearnley: beauty of MacKenzie Country in fiction . 2022-06-04 . RNZ . en-nz.
  3. Web site: Rocky relations. Gilchrist. Shane. 29 September 2014. Otago Daily Times. 29 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Writer draws on small NZ towns for inspiration. Smith. Charmian. 9 May 2009. Otago Daily Times. 29 January 2019.
  5. Web site: Laurence Fearnley. Victoria University of Wellington: International Institute of Modern Letters. 29 January 2019.
  6. Fearnley . Jura . 2012 . Doctoral thesis . Boden Black (A Novel) and With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps: Differences Between Overseas and New Zealand Written Accounts of Climbing Mount Cook 1882-1920 and the Emergence of a New Zealand Voice in Mountaineering Literature . Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington . 10.26686/wgtn.17000845 . free .
  7. Web site: 147 authors fight it out for the Impac Dublin prize. Irvine. Lindesay. 12 November 2008. The Guardian. 28 January 2019.
  8. Web site: New Zealand Post Book Awards. Christchurch City Libraries. 29 January 2019.
  9. Web site: Boardman Tasker Prize - The 2010 Shortlist. Ryan. Mick. 17 September 2010. UKClimbing. 28 January 2019.
  10. Web site: Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces Winners. 9 November 2015. Rock and Ice. 28 January 2019.
  11. Web site: New Zealand’s Book Awards Announce First-Ever Longlist. 26 November 2015. Creative NZ. 29 January 2019.
  12. Web site: Previous Artists & Media in Antarctica. Antarctica New Zealand. 28 January 2019.
  13. Web site: Prose: Laurence Fearnley: Antarctica – Looking Back. 31 December 2018. Flash Frontier: an adventure in short fiction. 28 January 2019.
  14. Web site: Otago Announces 2007 Arts Fellowships. 17 November 2006. The Big Idea. 28 January 2019.
  15. Web site: Laurence Fearnley – 2007. University of Otago: Nourishing the Roots. 28 January 2019.
  16. Web site: About the Authors. Roadwords: A literary tour of southern NZ towns. 28 January 2019.
  17. Web site: Roadwords: A literary tour of southern towns by four award winning writers. 5 August 2014. Creative NZ. 28 January 2019.
  18. Web site: Bringing literature to smaller towns. 7 August 2014. Otago Daily Times. 29 January 2019.
  19. Web site: Laurence Fearnley wins Janet Frame Memorial Award 2016. 18 November 2016. NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. 28 January 2019.
  20. Web site: Laurence Fearnley (2017). Michael King Writers Centre. 29 January 2019.
  21. Web site: Friends of the Hocken Collections Award. Friends of the Hocken Collections. 29 January 2019.
  22. Web site: Landfall Essay Competition winners share prize for radically different topics. 6 November 2017. Booksellers NZ. 29 January 2019.
  23. Web site: Acclaimed authors share thoughts on writing. Ritchie. Judith. 21 September 2016. Stuff. 28 January 2019.
  24. Web site: Scents of a Landscape. Tauranga Arts Festival. 28 January 2019.
  25. Web site: Beyond the Visual. Tauranga Arts Festival. 28 January 2019.
  26. Web site: To the Mountains: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. 3 September 2018. Christchurch City Libraries. 28 January 2019.
  27. Web site: To The Mountains. WORD Christchurch. 28 January 2019.
  28. Web site: 2023-10-09 . Fearnley awarded NZ$10,000 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship . 2023-12-21 . Books+Publishing.
  29. Web site: A surprising glimmer of hope. Barry. Rebecca. 5 May 2009. New Zealand Herald. 29 January 2019.
  30. Web site: Laurence Fearnley interview. Harvey. Siobhan. 16 July 2011. NZ Listener. 29 January 2019.
  31. Web site: Book Review: Going Up is Easy, by Lydia Bradey, with Laurence Fearnley. Lightbourne. Amie. 29 January 2016. Booksellers NZ. 28 January 2019.
  32. Web site: Reach. 12 October 2014. Radio New Zealand. 28 January 2019.
  33. Web site: Laurence Fearnley's new novel The Quiet Spectacular. 3 July 2016. Radio New Zealand. 28 January 2019.
  34. Web site: Alpine inspiration: Laurence Fearnley & Paul Hersey. 31 May 2018. Radio New Zealand. 28 January 2019.
  35. Web site: 2020-02-19 . Book review: Scented by Laurence Fearnley . 2023-12-21 . Elizabeth Heritage . en-US.
  36. Web site: Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley . 2023-12-21 . Academy of New Zealand Literature . en-NZ.

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