Marilyn Duckworth

Marilyn Duckworth was born in Ōtāhuhu in 1935, spent a wartime childhood in England and now lives in Wellington. She is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has also written extensively for television and radio. Duckworth was the 1980 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. She won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction with Disorderly Conduct (1984), and her novel Leather Wings was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1996. Her memoir, Camping on the Faultline, was published in 2000, and The Chiming Blue: New and Selected Poems in 2017. She was awarded an OBE for Services to Literature in 1987 and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in fiction in 2016.