Sarah Quigley


Sarah Quigley is a New Zealand-born writer.

Background

Sarah Quigley was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has an MA Hons from the University of Canterbury and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.

Career

A graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course, Quigley won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998. Her short stories and poetry have been widely broadcast and published, and she has won many prizes including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Her publications include novels, short fiction, a creative writing manual and poetry collections, many of which have sold internationally. Her novel The Conductor was the highest-selling adult fiction title in New Zealand in 2011, staying at number one for 20 weeks.

Awards

In 2001 Quigley won the Commonwealth Short Story Award and received first place in the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition for Breathing Out.
In 2002, she received the CLNZ Writers' Award to write a biography of the poet and patron of writers, Charles Brasch. She was shortlisted in the Reviewer of the Year category of the 1999 and 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
The Conductor was awarded the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers Choice Award in 2012. It was longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina in France.
In 2015 she won the MPA Columnist of the Year for her Next magazine column The Divorce Diaries, and was runner-up for the award in 2016 and 2019.

Residencies and fellowships

Quigley received the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998. In 2003 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Quigley won the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000.

Works

Novels

Work by Quigley was included in:
Poems by Quigley were included in: