20th-century New Zealand women writers

The list 20th-century New Zealand women writers includes Liddy Holloway, Fran Walsh, Annabel Langbein, Katherine Mansfield and Nancy Brunning. The list consists of 235 members and 1 sublist.

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Katherine Mansfield

Author

Overview: Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1888

Date of death: 9 January 1923

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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20th-century New Zealand short story writers 34T

Tuberculosis deaths in France 109T

New Zealand women short story writers 42T
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Nancy Brunning

New Zealand actor and director

Overview: Nancy Brunning (1971 – 16 November 2019) was a New Zealand actress, director, and writer who won awards in film and television and made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts. Brunning ...

Date of birth: 1971

Date of death: 16 November 2019

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights 53T

New Zealand women dramatists and playwrights 36T

20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights 64T
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Liddy Holloway

New Zealand actor

Overview: Elizabeth Brenda "Liddy" Holloway (27 March 1947 – 29 December 2004) was a New Zealand actress and television scriptwriter.

Date of birth: 27 March 1945

Date of death: 29 December 2004

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian screenwriters 45T

20th-century journalists 2,834T

Women soap opera writers 153T
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Fran Walsh

New Zealand filmmaker

Overview: Dame Frances Rosemary Walsh DNZM (born 10 January 1959) is a New Zealand screenwriter, film producer and lyricist. She has won BAFTA and Oscars for her music, film producing, and script writing.

Date of birth: 10 January 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Cinematographer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Peter Jackson (Married)

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Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 58T

Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award 95T

New Zealand women film producers 5T
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Annabel Langbein

New Zealand celebrity chef

Overview: Annabel Rose Langbein ONZM (born 1958) is a New Zealand celebrity cook, food writer and publisher. She has published 25 cookbooks and fronted three seasons of her TV series, Annabel Langbein The Free Range ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Chef

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand women writers 106T

Women food writers 174T

Women cookbook writers 359T
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Beryl Te Wiata

New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter

Overview: Beryl Margaret Te Wiata (née McMillan, 15 April 1925 – 4 May 2017) was a New Zealand actor, author, and scriptwriter.

Date of birth: 15 April 1925

Date of death: 6 May 2017

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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People educated at Wellington East Girls' College 8T

2017 deaths 9,371T

New Zealand soap opera actresses 71T
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Essie Summers

New Zealand writer

Overview: Essie Summers (born Ethel Snelson Summers, 4 July 1912 – 27 August 1998) was a New Zealand author whose romance novels sold more than 19 million copies in 105 countries. She was known as New Zealand's ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1912

Date of death: 27 August 1998

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century New Zealand novelists 121T

20th-century New Zealand writers 122T

New Zealand women novelists 102T
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Joy Cowley

New Zealand writer (born 1936)

Overview: Cassia Joy Cowley ONZ DCNZM OBE (née Summers; born 7 August 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy.

Date of birth: 7 August 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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New Zealand women children's writers 66T

New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire 366T

Recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 86T
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Ruth Park

New Zealand–Australia writer

Overview: Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 1917 – 14 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980) ...

Date of birth: 24 August 1923

Date of death: 14 December 2010

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Australian women children's writers 87T

20th-century Australian women writers 366T

Women writers for children 986T
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Ngaio Marsh

New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (1895–1982)

Overview: Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.

Date of birth: 23 April 1895

Date of death: 18 February 1982

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century British women writers 1,321T

New Zealand Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire 41T

People educated at St Margaret's College 6T
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Rachel Lang

New Zealand screenwriter, producer and actor

Overview: Rachel Lang MNZM is a New Zealand television screenwriter, executive producer and actor. She co-created the television series Outrageous Fortune, Go Girls, This Is Not My Life, Mercy Peak, Nothing Trivial ...

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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New Zealand women screenwriters 20T

New Zealand television writers 8T

New Zealand television producers 29T
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Cherry Wilder

Pseudonym of Kiwi science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett

Overview: Cherry Barbara Grimm (née Lockett, 3 September 1930 – 14 March 2002), better known by the pseudonym Cherry Wilder, was a New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer.

Date of birth: 19 September 1930

Date of death: 20 March 2002

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century pseudonymous writers 926T

Pseudonymous women writers 946T

People educated at Nelson College for Girls 26T
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Susan Napier

New Zealand writer

Overview: Susan Napier (born 14 February 1954 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a popular New Zealand writer of over 30 romance novels in various Mills & Boon category lines since 1984.

Date of birth: 14 February 1954

Age: 71

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand women writers 106T

Women romantic fiction writers 529T

20th-century New Zealand novelists 121T
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Fiona Kidman

New Zealand writer

Overview: Dame Fiona Judith Kidman DNZM OBE (née Eakin, born 26 March 1940) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story author.

Date of birth: 26 March 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand short story writers 23T

20th-century New Zealand short story writers 34T

21st-century New Zealand women writers 106T
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Keri Hulme

New Zealand writer

Overview: Keri Hulme (9 March 1947 - 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Her novel, The Bone People, won the Man Booker Prize in 1985. She was the first New Zealander to win ...

Date of birth: 9 March 1947

Date of death: 27 December 2021

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Neurological disease deaths in New Zealand 21T

2021 deaths 9,760T

21st-century New Zealand short story writers 23T
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Robyn Donald

New Zealand romance novelist

Overview: Robyn Donald (born 14 August 1940 in Warkworth) is a prolific New Zealand writer of romance novels since 1977. who lives in Kerikeri in Northland, New Zealand. Her books are printed 500,000 at a time.

Date of birth: 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand women writers 139T

Women romantic fiction writers 606T

20th-century New Zealand novelists 122T
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Lynley Dodd

NZ children's book author and illustrator

Overview: Dame Lynley Stuart Dodd DNZM (born 5 July 1941) is a New Zealand children's book author and illustrator. She is best known for her "Hairy Maclary and Friends" series, and its follow-ups, all of which ...

Date of birth: 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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New Zealand women children's writers 66T

21st-century New Zealand women writers 106T

Women writers for children 986T
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Briar Grace-Smith

New Zealand Māori scriptwriter

Overview: Briar Grace-Smith ONZM is a writer of scripts, screenplays and short stories from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre ...

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights 62T

New Zealand women dramatists and playwrights 41T

20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights 66T
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Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

Overview: Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Frame's celebrity derived from ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1924

Date of death: 29 January 2004

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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21st-century New Zealand short story writers 23T

20th-century New Zealand short story writers 34T

21st-century New Zealand women writers 106T
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Rose Pere

Māori spiritual leader

Overview: Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent ...

Date of birth: 25 July 1937

Date of death: 13 December 2020

Age: 83 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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