Kelly Ana Morey
Born1968 (age 54–55)
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. 1 2 3 "Kelly Ana Morey". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Kelly Ana Morey". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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". Michale King Writers Centre. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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