Airini Beautrais
Dr Airini Beautrais | |
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Born | 1982 (age 38–39) New Zealand |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
Notable works | Secret Heart Bug Week & Other Stories |
Notable awards | NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction |
Airini Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand.
Background[]
Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui.[1] She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University of Wellington.[2] In 2016 she received her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.[3][4]
As of 2021, Beautrais lives in Whanganui with her two sons.[5]
Works[]
Beautrais's writing draws on her personal experiences, and is often set in her hometown of Whanganui.[6]
Beautrais has published four collections of poetry with Victoria University Press: Secret Heart (2006); Western Line (2011); Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014); and Flow: Whanganui River Poems (2017).[2] In 2020 Victoria University Press published a collection of her short stories, titled Bug Week & Other Stories.[7] The collection had taken her ten years to write, and she has said it was inspired by "the female experience, from girlhood through to middle age and end of life".[5][8]
She has been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2016)[9] and literary journals, including Overland, [10] and Penduline.[11]
Awards[]
Beautrais's first collection of poetry, Secret Heart, was awarded the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[12]
Dear Neil Roberts was longlisted in the poetry category of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award.[13]
In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.[14]
Beautrais won the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition.[3]
She won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Bug Week & Other Stories, receiving an award of NZ$57,000, New Zealand's largest cash book prize.[8][15] Kiran Dass, the category's convener of judges, said of the book: "Casting a devastating and witty eye on humanity at its most fallible and wonky, this is a tightly-wound and remarkably assured collection". It was only the second short-story collection to win the top fiction prize in the history of the New Zealand Book Awards.[8]
References[]
- ^ Beautrais, Airini (2015). Dear Neil Roberts. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9781776560141.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016". University of Otago. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "BNZP 2016 Airini Beautrais". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hunt, Elle (2 March 2021). "Ockham Awards shortlist: Airini Beautrais on Bug Week & Other Stories". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "Interview with Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Beautrais, Airini (6 May 2021). Bug week : & other stories. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-77656-305-0. OCLC 1182024497.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c McClure, Tess (12 May 2012). "Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand's Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2016". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Flow". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "A pair of hands". Penduline Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Previous Longlist 2016". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Broom Poetry Award Finalists". NZ Poetry Shelf. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Beautrais wins 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for fiction". Books+Publishing. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
External links[]
- Living people
- 1982 births
- People from Whanganui
- Victoria University of Wellington alumni
- New Zealand fiction writers
- New Zealand women poets