Kelly Ana Morey

Kelly Ana Morey
Born1968 (age 56–57)
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityNew Zealander
GenreFiction
Notable worksBloom, Grace is Gone
Notable awardsNZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award

Kelly Ana Morey (born 1968) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Background

Born in 1969, Morey is of Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, and Pākehā descent and grew up in Papua New Guinea.[1][2] She received a BA in English, MA in contemporary Māori art, an MALit, and is pursuing a PhD.[3][4] She currently lives in Kaipara.[5]

Publications

Fiction

Novels by Morey include:

  • Bloom (2003, Penguin)
  • Grace is Gone (2005, Penguin)
  • On an Island, with Consequences Dire (2007, Penguin)
  • Quinine (2010, Huia)
  • Daylight Second (2016, HarperCollins)

Short stories and poems by Morey have been included in 100 Short, Short Stories,[6] anthologies of Māori writing by Huia Publishers,[3] Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English,[7] and Puna Wai Korer: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English.[8]

Non-fiction

Morey has served as an oral historian at the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum since 2002.[3] She is the author of Service to the Sea, a non-fiction work about the Royal New Zealand Navy's history.[9]

Morey published How to Read a Book in 2005, a reflection on books that have influenced her life and writing.[10] In 2013, she documented the history of St Cuthbert's College in St Cuthbert’s College 100 Years,[11] She is also contributor to The Spinoff[5] and the equestrian magazine Show Circuit.[8]

Awards

Bloom won the 2004 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[12] Grace is Gone was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize for fiction[1][2] She was the winner of the 2005 Janet Frame Award for Fiction.[13]

In 2003, Morey received the Todd Young Writers’ Bursary.[3] In 2014 she received the Māori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre during which time she developed her novel Daylight Second.[14][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kelly Ana Morey". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Kelly Ana Morey". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d "Kelly Ana Morey". Penguin Books New Zealand. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. ^ Morey, Kelly (2000). Piki te ora : the location of nga poropiti in contemporary Maori art (Masters thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/2958.
  5. ^ a b "Kelly Ana Morey". The Spinoff. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  6. ^ Lay, Graeme, ed. (1997). 100 NZ Short Short Stories. Tandem Press. ISBN 9781877178016.
  7. ^ Wendt, Albert; Whaitiri, Reina; Sullivan, Robert, eds. (December 2002). Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English. Auckland Univ Press. ISBN 9781869402730.
  8. ^ a b Whaitiri, Reina (2014). Puna Wai Korero: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English. Auckland University Press. ISBN 9781775587460.
  9. ^ Morey, Kelly Ana (2008). Service from the Sea: New Zealand Naval History Told Through the Collections of the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum. Viking. ISBN 9780670072408.
  10. ^ Morey, Kelly Ana (2005). How to Read a Book. Awa Press. ISBN 9780958253895.
  11. ^ "St Cuthbert's History Book". St Cuthbert's College. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Janet Frame Literary Trust Awards". Janet Frame Estate. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  14. ^ "Writers in Residence". Michael King Writers Centre. Retrieved 24 November 2017.