Sheridan Keith | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 82–83) Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Notable works | Zoology (1995) |
Sheridan Keith (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator.
Keith was born inWellington in 1942.[1][2] She is the daughter of ceramic artist and painterJune Black.[3] She studied zoology and English literature atVictoria University of Wellington.[4] During the 1960s she spent a decade living in London, and returned to New Zealand in 1974, where she worked as a journalist for several years before beginning to write fiction.[1]
Her work has included broadcasting, journalism and teaching creative writing, and her writing has been published inThe London Magazine,Landfall, theNew Zealand Listener and other magazines.[4] Her first collection of short stories,Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket (1991) was shortlisted in the Best First Book category of theCommonwealth Writers Prize.[4] Her first novel,Zoology (1995), grew out of a short story included in her second collection of short stories,Animal Passions (1992).[1] It won the Fiction Award at the 1996Montana Book Awards.[4][5] AcademicTerry Sturm said Keith's short stories "focus on the practices and aspirations of women in a demanding world".[6]
Since around 1995, Keith has owned a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques inNorthcote, a suburb of Auckland.[4][3][7]
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