Airini Beautrais

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Airini Beautrais
Airini Beautrais in 2021
Airini Beautrais in 2021
Born1982 (age 41–42)
New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
Notable worksSecret Heart
Bug Week & Other Stories
Notable awardsNZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction

Airini Jane Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand.

Background

Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui.[1] She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University of Wellington.[2] In 2016 she received her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, under doctoral advisors Harry Ricketts and James Brown.[3][4][5]

As of 2021, Beautrais lives in Whanganui with her two sons.[6]

Works

Beautrais's writing draws on her personal experiences, and is often set in her hometown of Whanganui.[7]

Beautrais has published four collections of poetry with Victoria University Press: Secret Heart (2006); Western Line (2011); Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014); and Flow: Whanganui River Poems (2017).[2] In 2020 Victoria University Press published a collection of her short stories, titled Bug Week & Other Stories.[8] The collection had taken her ten years to write, and she has said it was inspired by "the female experience, from girlhood through to middle age and end of life".[6][9]

She has been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2016)[10] and literary journals, including Overland, [11] and Penduline.[12]

Awards

Beautrais's first collection of poetry, Secret Heart, was awarded the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[13]

Dear Neil Roberts was longlisted in the poetry category of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award.[14]

In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.[15]

Beautrais won the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition.[3]

She won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Bug Week & Other Stories, receiving an award of NZ$57,000, New Zealand's largest cash book prize.[9][16] Kiran Dass, the category's convener of judges, said of the book: "Casting a devastating and witty eye on humanity at its most fallible and wonky, this is a tightly-wound and remarkably assured collection". It was only the second short-story collection to win the top fiction prize in the history of the New Zealand Book Awards.[9]

References

  1. ^ Beautrais, Airini (2015). Dear Neil Roberts. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9781776560141.
  2. ^ a b "Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016". University of Otago. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ^ "BNZP 2016 Airini Beautrais". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  5. ^ Beautrais, Airini (2016). Narrativity and segmentivity in contemporary Australian and New Zealand long poems and poem sequences (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.17018795.
  6. ^ a b Hunt, Elle (2 March 2021). "Ockham Awards shortlist: Airini Beautrais on Bug Week & Other Stories". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Interview with Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  8. ^ Beautrais, Airini (6 May 2021). Bug week : & other stories. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-77656-305-0. OCLC 1182024497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ a b c McClure, Tess (12 May 2012). "Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand's Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  10. ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2016". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Flow". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  12. ^ "A pair of hands". Penduline Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  14. ^ "Previous Longlist 2016". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  15. ^ "Sarah Broom Poetry Award Finalists". NZ Poetry Shelf. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  16. ^ "Beautrais wins 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for fiction". Books+Publishing. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.

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