Emily Perkins is a writer of contemporary fiction, and the success of her first collection of stories, not her real name and other stories, established her early on as an important writer of her generation. Perkins has written novels, as well as short fiction, and her writing has won and been shortlisted for several significant awards and prizes. She was the 2006 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow, and she used the fellowship to work on her book, Novel About My Wife, published in 2008. She is an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award winner (2011).
Books in order of publication:
Not Her Real Name and Other Stories – 1997
Leave Before You Go – 1998
The New Girl – 2002
About My Wife – 2008
The Forrests – 2012
Lioness – 2023
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