Hinemoana Baker – 2024
Poet and performer Hinemoana Baker (Ngāti Raukawa-ki-te-Tonga, Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Kāi Tahu, England, Germany) will be using her six months
Julien Blanc-Gras – 2024
Julien Blanc-Gras is a writer, traveller, journalist, and father, and has explored the four corners of the world, drawing inspiration from his journeys for many
Rachel O’Neill – 2023
Rachel O’Neill is an artist, film maker, teacher of creative writing, communications professional, and, above all poet. O’Neill will be using their six months at Randell
Sedef Ecer – 2023
Born in Istanbul, Sedef Ecer grew up in the world of movie-making, theatre and television. Her latest book, Trésor national, was published by JC Lattès
Caroline Laurent – 2022/23
Born in 1988 and of French-Mauritian origins, Caroline grew up between French Polynesia, Bordeaux, Italy and Paris, where she currently resides. She still travels regularly
Rose Lu – 2022
Tramper, software engineer, and essayist, Rose Lu will be using her six months at Randell Cottage to write her first novel.
Lynn Davidson – 2021
Lynn Davidson is a poet and novelist. Davidson’s most recent publication is the poetry collection Islander. She won the Poetry New Zealand’s 2020 poetry Award
Michalia Arathimos – 2020
Michalia Arathimos has just returned from Australia, where she lived in Melbourne and other places.
Amaury da Cunha – 2020
With a speech therapist mother and a photographer father, it was perhaps almost inevitable that writer and photographer Amaury da Cunha would grow up with
Paddy Richardson – 2019
Dunedin-based writer Paddy Richardson is the 2019 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow. Richardson has published seven novels and two short-story collections. Her Randell
Karin Serres – 2019
Karin Serres, the Randell Cottage’s 2019 French resident is a novelist, a playwright, for stage and radio, and a translator. She trained as a scenographer
James Norcliffe – 2018
Christchurch-based writer James Norcliffe is to be the 2018 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow.
Amélie Lucas-Gary – 2018
Photographer-turned-writer Amélie Lucas-Gary is the Randell Cottage’s French writer in residence for 2018. Born in 1982, in Arcachon in France’s South West, she studied at
Josef Schovanec – 2017
Josef Schovanec is a writer, polyglot and activist for autistic people who has published four books including Voyages en Autistan – Travels in Autistan (Plon, Paris)
Stephen Daisley – 2017
Perth-based writer Stephen Daisley hit New Zealand headlines in 2016, when his second novel, Coming Rain, took out the inaugural Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at
Nicolas Fargues – 2016
The 2016 French writer in residence is Nicolas Fargues, author of ten novels including J’étais derrière toi – I was Behind You (Pushkin Press, London) –
Stephanie Johnson – 2016
Stephanie Johnson is the author of several collections of poetry and of short stories, of plays and adaptations, but is best known for her novels.
David Fauquemberg – 2015
Born in 1973, David Fauquemberg lives in the Cotentin area of Normandy. A novelist, he has published work in magazines such as XXI, Géo and
Owen Marshall – 2015
Timaru-based writer Owen Marshall has published or edited almost thirty books, including novels, short stories and poetry including Living as a Moon, Watch of Gryphons,
Witi Ihimaera – 2015
Witi Ihimaera is a novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne. He is of Te Whanau A Kai and Ngati Porou
Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut – 2014
Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut was born in Hue, Viet-Nam, in 1962. Her family moved to the US in 1968, then three years later moved to France. After
Tina Makereti – 2014
Tina Makereti is the author of two books: a novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Vintage 2014), and a short story collection, Once Upon a
Estelle Nollet – 2013
Estelle Nollet was born in 1978 in the Central African Republic and moved to France a few years later. Following her studies as a graphic
Denis Welch – 2013
Denis Welch is a poet, novelist, journalist, editor, media commentator, columnist and biographer. The Wellingtonian has also been described as a ‘serial maker of puns’.
Vivienne Plumb – 2012
Author, poet and playwright Vivienne Plumb was born in Australia and lived in Wellington for over thirty years before heading north in 2008. She has
Peter Walker – 2011
Peter Walker works as a journalist in London, and is the author of the historical memoir The Fox Boy (Bloomsbury 2001) set in Taranaki, and
Florence Cadier – 2011
Florence Cadier was born in 1956 and is a journalist by profession. In 1995, inspired by her two children Bastien and Valentine, she began to write children’s
Patrick Valdimar White – 2010
Patrick Valdimar White is a poet, essayist and artist whose work reflects his passion for the natural environment and an exploration of the way individuals
Yann Apperry – 2010
Yann Apperry is a bilingual French-American who writes in both languages and translates his own texts with elegance and finesse. He is an accomplished novelist,
Kirsty Gunn – 2009
Kirsty Gunn was brought up in Wellington and educated at Victoria University (BA Hons) and Oxford University (M.Phil). She is currently the Professor of Creative
Fariba Hachtroudi – 2009
Fariba Hachtroudi is a French writer and Iranian exile born in Tehran in 1951, and the daughter of the eminent mathematician and champion of democracy
Jennifer Compton – 2008
Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949 and had two poems published in the NZ Listener when she was 15. In 1972
Olivier Bleys – 2008
Olivier Bleys was born in Lyon in 1970. He holds masters’ degrees in modern literature, computer graphics and cultural project management. Author of historical novels
Whiti Hereaka – 2007
Whiti Hereaka is a founding member of Writers Block. Since 2001, Writers Block has been encouraging new writers in theatre particularly those from Maori and
Nicolas Kurtovitch – 2007
Nicolas Kurtovitch was born in Noumea in 1955. His mother’s side of the family first settled in New Caledonia in 1843. He also has Yugoslavian
Beryl Fletcher – 2006
As it is for many women writers, writing fiction was a life-long goal which was realised later rather than sooner. Her novels take as their
Annie Saumont – 2006
Annie Saumont has been writing short stories for twenty years and with 200 to her name, she is considered as a reference for short story
Renée – 2005
Renée (1929-) Feminist dramatist and fiction writer Renée was born in Napier, and is of Ngati Kahungunu and Irish-English-Scots ancestry. After leaving school at 12,
Dominique Mainard – 2005
Dominique Mainard (1967-) is a novelist, short story writer and translator and has developed her passion for New Zealand literature through the works of Janet
Michael Harlow – 2004
Michael Harlow (1937- ) was born in the USA of a Greek father and American-Ukrainian mother, travelled extensively in Europe before arriving in New Zealand
Pierre Furlan – 2004
Pierre Furlan (1943- ) was born in southwestern France in 1943, he spent his adolescence in California and studied at UC Berkeley. He then settled
Charles Juliet – 2003
Charles Juliet was the second French writer, after Nadine Ribault in 2002, to be awarded the residency. Juliet is a 69 year-old poet and novelist
Tim Corballis – 2003
Tim Corballis (1971 -) is a fiction writer whose first novel Below was published in 2001. His fiction has also appeared in Sport, The Picnic
Nadine Ribault – 2002
Nadine Ribault (1964–2021) was born in Paris and travelled a great deal during her childhood, to Africa, Holland and Scotland. She obtained a BA in
Peter Wells – 2002
Peter Wells (1950-2019) won the New Zealand and Reed awards for fiction with his first short story collection, Dangerous Desires (1991). Wells’ second collection, The Duration of
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