Emily Perkins





Emily Perkins

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born
Christchurch, New Zealand
gender
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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 a number of 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).


Average rating: 3.32 · 1,075 ratings · 211 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
Novel About My Wife
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
The Forrests
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
Not Her Real Name and Other...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 103 ratings2 editions
Leave Before You Go
3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
The New Girl
2.98 of 5 stars 2.98 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
Picnic Virgin: New Writers
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999
A Place Where No One Knows ...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996
Fortune Hotel
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings4 editions
Essential New Zealand Short...
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3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002
Selected Stories
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1953 — 7 editions
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“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots. ”
Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife

“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”
Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife

“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.”
Emily Perkins, The Forrests

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