Pip Adam
Pip Adam | |
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Born | Christchurch, New Zealand |
Occupation | Author and tutor |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable works | Everything We Hoped For, I’m Working On A Building, The New Animals, Nothing To See |
Notable awards | NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction, New Generation Award, Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize |
Website | |
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Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.
Background[]
Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies[1] and an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. In 2012 she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University.[2]
Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in Wellington.[1]
Works[]
- Everything We Hoped For (2010) – short story collection
- I'm Working On A Building (2013) – novel [2]
- The New Animals (2017) – novel [3]
- Nothing To See (2020) – novel
Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including Overland (2015),[4] takahē (2014),[5] Fire Dials (2014),[6] Sport (2008–2014),[7] Landfall (2009, 2010), and Hue & Cry (2007–2013).[2]
Adam is a book reviewer on Jesse Mulligan's show broadcast on Radio New Zealand.[8] She also hosts the Better off Read podcast.[9]
The photographer Ann Shelton used writing by Adam in her 2015 installation House Work: a project about a house.[10][11]
Adam has taught creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University[1][12] and at Whitirea New Zealand. With the Write Where You Are collective, she has taught writing at the Arohata Women's Prison.[2]
Awards[]
Everything We Hoped For won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.[13]
Adam also received the New Generation Award in the 2012 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand[14] and was a runner up in the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition.[2]
The New Animals won New Zealand's top fiction prize, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2018[15] and Nothing to See was shortlisted for the same award in 2021.[16]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Pip Adam". The Arts Foundation. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Pip Adam". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ Adam, Pip (2017). The New Animals. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9781776561162.
- ^ "Pip Adam". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "takahē 81 – April 2014". takahē magazine. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Five Dials #32" (PDF). Five Dials. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Pip Adam". Sport. 28 February 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Book critic Pip Adam". Radio New Zealand. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Better off Read". Better off Read. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "house work". Ann Shelton. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "House Work". Enjoy Gallery. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Pip Adam – Senior Tutor". Massey University. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "2012 Arts Foundation Award recipients announced". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
- ^ "Wellingtonian Pip Adam wins Ockham New Zealand Book Award for The New Animals". Stuff. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- ^ "Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
External links[]
- Better off Read podcast
- Pip Adam on Twitter
- Living people
- Victoria University of Wellington alumni
- New Zealand fiction writers
- New Zealand women novelists
- New Zealand women short story writers
- Massey University faculty
- People from Christchurch
- People from Wellington City