Kirsty GunnKirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn is a “Scottish writer” born in New Zealand in 1960 and now a professor of writing practise at the University of Dundee. Her novels include The Big Music (named book of the year at the 2013 New Zealand Book Awards) and Caroline’s Bikini, published in July 2018.

When will New Zealand fiction get over itself?

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An essay by novelist Kirsty Gunn, who claims New Zealand fiction remains besotted with dreary issues of national identity. Quite a while ago now, I wrote a novel about a boy growing up, who loves the sea, loves to surf, and who has a day in the middle of summer when the sea seems to want to … Read more