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New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born on this day in 1888. She was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand.

Google honoured her birthday while simultaneously reminding me about the BNZ Literary Awards and who the winner was for the prestigious Katherine Mansfield main prize:

☆.。★*・°☆ CATHERINE CHIDGEY ☆° ・*。★.☆

Winning story – Reverse Living (PDF 89KB)

Catherine Chidgey’s bio (PDF 53KB)

Judge Albert Wendt’s report (PDF 59KB)