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	Her second novel, ''Golden Deeds'', was published in 2000, and was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2000 [[New Zealand Book Awards]]. It was published by [[Picador (imprint)\|Picador]] in the UK and by [[Henry Holt and Company\|Henry Holt]] in the US (under the title ''The Strength of the Sun''), where it was a 2002 Notable Book of the Year in ''[[The New York Times]]'' Book Review, and a 2002 Best Book in the [[Los Angeles Times\|''LA Times'']] Book Review. The ''[[The Times Literary Supplement\|Times Literary Supplement]]'' called it "magnanimous and merciless, a work reminiscent at times of darkest [[Margaret Atwood\|Atwood]] ... A witty and melancholy alchemy of heat and chill, a work of craft and fluency, which revitalizes the book in all its guises ... for those who love books, Catherine Chidgey is a find".<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Smith\|first=Ali\|date=15 September 2000\|title=The Stuff of Books\|journal=The Times Literary Supplement\|pages=23}}</ref> The ''[[Sunday Express]]'' called it "a wonderful, gripping read. Human relations and needs are explored in all their complexity. Chidgey proves herself to be among that elite group of authors who possess a true grasp of the patterns of life".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Tales of isolation and connection\|last=Hunt\|first=Anna\|date=24 September 2000\|work=Sunday Express}}</ref> ''[[The Independent On Sunday\|The Independent on Sunday]]'' said the novel "ensnares you, creeps up and snaffles you with its small, tense concerns. I could not stop thinking about it. I could not put it down ... I finished ''Golden Deeds'' with that delicious and rare feeling: that I was in the presence of a proper, grown-up storyteller who cared not a toss for gimmicks or manifestoes, but dared instead to put her case with real authorial power and verve".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Refreshingly diffident\|last=Myerson\|first=Julie\|date=5 November 2000\|work=The Independent on Sunday}}</ref>		Her second novel, ''Golden Deeds'', was published in 2000, and was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2000 [[New Zealand Book Awards]]. It was published by [[Picador (imprint)\|Picador]] in the UK and by [[Henry Holt and Company\|Henry Holt]] in the US (under the title ''The Strength of the Sun''), where it was a 2002 Notable Book of the Year in ''[[The New York Times]]'' Book Review, and a 2002 Best Book in the [[Los Angeles Times\|''LA Times'']] Book Review. The ''[[The Times Literary Supplement\|Times Literary Supplement]]'' called it "magnanimous and merciless, a work reminiscent at times of darkest [[Margaret Atwood\|Atwood]] ... A witty and melancholy alchemy of heat and chill, a work of craft and fluency, which revitalizes the book in all its guises ... for those who love books, Catherine Chidgey is a find".<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Smith\|first=Ali\|date=15 September 2000\|title=The Stuff of Books\|journal=The Times Literary Supplement\|pages=23}}</ref> The ''[[Sunday Express]]'' called it "a wonderful, gripping read. Human relations and needs are explored in all their complexity. Chidgey proves herself to be among that elite group of authors who possess a true grasp of the patterns of life".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Tales of isolation and connection\|last=Hunt\|first=Anna\|date=24 September 2000\|work=Sunday Express}}</ref> ''[[The Independent On Sunday\|The Independent on Sunday]]'' said the novel "ensnares you, creeps up and snaffles you with its small, tense concerns. I could not stop thinking about it. I could not put it down ... I finished ''Golden Deeds'' with that delicious and rare feeling: that I was in the presence of a proper, grown-up storyteller who cared not a toss for gimmicks or manifestoes, but dared instead to put her case with real authorial power and verve".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Refreshingly diffident\|last=Myerson\|first=Julie\|date=5 November 2000\|work=The Independent on Sunday}}</ref>

	''The Transformation'', Chidgey's third novel, was published in 2003, and that year she was named New Zealand's best novelist under forty by ''[[The New Zealand Listener]]''.<ref>Carolyn Bain, George Dunford, ''Lonely Planet New Zealand'', pp. 48, Lonely Planet, 2006, {{ISBN\|1-74104-535-5}}, {{ISBN\|978-1-74104-535-2}}.''</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=Writers sought for prize \|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/337922797 \|access-date=5 December 2021 \|work=Dominion Post \|date=24 May 2003 \|page=A12\|id={{ProQuest\|337922797}} }}</ref> The book tells the story of a shadowy Parisian wig-maker who flees to Tampa, Florida in the 1890s. ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' said that "Chidgey spins a horror story which, miraculously avoiding easy [[sensationalism]], is both troubling and haunting",<ref>{{Cite news\|title=The Transformation\|date=15 May 2005\|work=The Sunday Times}}</ref> and the ''[[The New Zealand Herald\|New Zealand Herald]]'' said it was "her third and best so far ... Chidgey could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful from it. She has that gift of the imagination that finds metaphor, contiguity and paradox wherever she looks, and a seemingly innate feel for structuring events, times and historical detail to make one whole, satisfying narrative out of a myriad unexpected parts".<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3532419\|title=''Catherine Chidgey:'' The Transformation\|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] \|access-date=22 July 2017\|language=en-NZ}}</ref> ''[[The Sunday Express]]'' remarked, "This really is a novel to get lost in ... A highly original read, as beautiful as it is terrifying, which manages to be riotously chilling without ever going over the top".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Ghoulish Goulet shines in a hair-raising chiller\|last=Groskop\|first=Viv\|date=1 May 2005\|work=Sunday Express}}</ref>		''The Transformation'', Chidgey's third novel, was published in 2003, and that year she was named New Zealand's best novelist under forty by ''[[The New Zealand Listener]]''.<ref>Carolyn Bain, George Dunford, ''Lonely Planet New Zealand'', pp. 48, Lonely Planet, 2006, {{ISBN\|1-74104-535-5}}, {{ISBN\|978-1-74104-535-2}}.</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=Writers sought for prize \|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/337922797 \|access-date=5 December 2021 \|work=Dominion Post \|date=24 May 2003 \|page=A12\|id={{ProQuest\|337922797}} }}</ref> The book tells the story of a shadowy Parisian wig-maker who flees to Tampa, Florida in the 1890s. ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' said that "Chidgey spins a horror story which, miraculously avoiding easy [[sensationalism]], is both troubling and haunting",<ref>{{Cite news\|title=The Transformation\|date=15 May 2005\|work=The Sunday Times}}</ref> and the ''[[The New Zealand Herald\|New Zealand Herald]]'' said it was "her third and best so far ... Chidgey could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful from it. She has that gift of the imagination that finds metaphor, contiguity and paradox wherever she looks, and a seemingly innate feel for structuring events, times and historical detail to make one whole, satisfying narrative out of a myriad unexpected parts".<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3532419\|title=''Catherine Chidgey:'' The Transformation\|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] \|access-date=22 July 2017\|language=en-NZ}}</ref> ''[[The Sunday Express]]'' remarked, "This really is a novel to get lost in ... A highly original read, as beautiful as it is terrifying, which manages to be riotously chilling without ever going over the top".<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Ghoulish Goulet shines in a hair-raising chiller\|last=Groskop\|first=Viv\|date=1 May 2005\|work=Sunday Express}}</ref>

	===Later novels===		===Later novels===
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	In 2023, her eighth novel, ''Pet'', a thriller about the relationship between a 12-year-old girl and her schoolteacher, was published in New Zealand, the UK and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2023-07-04 \|title=Books of the month, from Colson Whitehead to Selina Mills \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-july-review-colson-whitehead-crook-manifesto-serena-mills-b2365716.html \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|website=The Independent \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Anderson \|first=Hephzibah \|date=2023-07-02 \|title=Pet by Catherine Chidgey review – sly psychological thriller \|language=en-GB \|work=The Observer \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/pet-by-catherine-chidgey-review-sly-psychological-thriller \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Allfree \|first=Claire \|date=2023-07-10 \|title=The sinister, slow-burn downfall of a teacher's pet \|language=en-GB \|work=The Telegraph \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/review-pet-catherine-chidgey/ \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> [[Ruth Franklin]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it a "lingering, haunting book", and "a landmark in the small but potent canon of contemporary novels about unusual girls reckoning with themselves and the world around them".<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Franklin \|first=Ruth \|date=2023-08-06 \|title=When the Favor of a Beloved Schoolteacher Turns Sinister \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/books/review/catherine-chidgey-pet.html \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was the fifth best-selling fiction book in New Zealand in 2023.<ref name="2023 best"/> Along with ''The Axeman's Carnival'', it was long-listed for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award.<ref name="Potential">{{cite news \|last1=Shapiro \|first1=Josie \|title=Catherine Chidgey's The Book of Guilt 'a potential book of the year' \|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/catherine-chidgey-s-the-book-of-guilt-a-potential-book-of-the-year \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=Radio New Zealand \|date=9 May 2025 \|language=en-nz}}</ref>		In 2023, her eighth novel, ''Pet'', a thriller about the relationship between a 12-year-old girl and her schoolteacher, was published in New Zealand, the UK and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2023-07-04 \|title=Books of the month, from Colson Whitehead to Selina Mills \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-july-review-colson-whitehead-crook-manifesto-serena-mills-b2365716.html \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|website=The Independent \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Anderson \|first=Hephzibah \|date=2023-07-02 \|title=Pet by Catherine Chidgey review – sly psychological thriller \|language=en-GB \|work=The Observer \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/pet-by-catherine-chidgey-review-sly-psychological-thriller \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|last=Allfree \|first=Claire \|date=2023-07-10 \|title=The sinister, slow-burn downfall of a teacher's pet \|language=en-GB \|work=The Telegraph \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/review-pet-catherine-chidgey/ \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> [[Ruth Franklin]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it a "lingering, haunting book", and "a landmark in the small but potent canon of contemporary novels about unusual girls reckoning with themselves and the world around them".<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Franklin \|first=Ruth \|date=2023-08-06 \|title=When the Favor of a Beloved Schoolteacher Turns Sinister \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/books/review/catherine-chidgey-pet.html \|access-date=2023-08-14 \|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was the fifth best-selling fiction book in New Zealand in 2023.<ref name="2023 best"/> Along with ''The Axeman's Carnival'', it was long-listed for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award.<ref name="Potential">{{cite news \|last1=Shapiro \|first1=Josie \|title=Catherine Chidgey's The Book of Guilt 'a potential book of the year' \|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/catherine-chidgey-s-the-book-of-guilt-a-potential-book-of-the-year \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=Radio New Zealand \|date=9 May 2025 \|language=en-nz}}</ref>

	Her ninth novel, ''The Book of Guilt'', was published in 2025.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Mabey \|first=Claire \|date=2025-05-08 \|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed \|title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed \|work=The Spinoff}}</ref> Set in an alternative dystopian version of 1970s England, the novel is primarily narrated by one of three identical triplets raised in a children's home. Claire Mabey in ''[[The Spinoff]]'' described the novel as asking the reader to question "what it means to be alive in a human body that can learn, dream and think for itself", while grappling with contemporary political themes of dehumanisation and morality.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Mabey \|first1=Claire \|title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed \|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=The Spinoff \|date=8 May 2025 \|language=en}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' described it as a "compulsively readable story that raises profound questions", although noted that it would inevitably be compared to ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)\|Never Let Me Go]]'' by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]].<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Clark \|first1=Clare \|title=The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/21/the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-review-this-dystopia-could-have-been-extraordinary \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=The Guardian \|date=21 May 2025}}</ref>		Her ninth novel, ''The Book of Guilt'', was published in 2025.<ref>{{cite news \|last=Mabey \|first=Claire \|date=2025-05-08 \|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed \|title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed \|work=The Spinoff}}</ref> Set in an alternative dystopian version of 1970s England, the novel is primarily narrated by one of three identical triplets raised in a children's home. [[Claire Mabey]] in ''[[The Spinoff]]'' described the novel as asking the reader to question "what it means to be alive in a human body that can learn, dream and think for itself", while grappling with contemporary political themes of dehumanisation and morality.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Mabey \|first1=Claire \|title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed \|url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=The Spinoff \|date=8 May 2025 \|language=en}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' described it as a "compulsively readable story that raises profound questions", although noted that it would inevitably be compared to ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)\|Never Let Me Go]]'' by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]].<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Clark \|first1=Clare \|title=The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/21/the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-review-this-dystopia-could-have-been-extraordinary \|access-date=22 May 2025 \|work=The Guardian \|date=21 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Thomas-Corr \|first=Johanna \|date=2025-05-23 \|title=A 1970s childhood horror story (with echoes of Kazuo Ishiguro) \|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/book-guilt-catherine-chidgey-review-kk5zc59rf \|access-date=2025-09-28 \|website=www.thetimes.com \|language=en}}</ref> It was selected as one of the top books of 2025 by [[Amazon (company)\|Amazon]] and [[People (magazine)\|''People'' magazine]].<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Raposas \|first1=Rachel \|title=Critics Agree: 11 Books That Made Both PEOPLE Picks and Amazon's Books of the Year \|url=https://people.com/books-in-people-picks-and-amazon-books-of-the-year-11847990 \|access-date=20 November 2025 \|work=People.com \|date=12 November 2025 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Kodicek \|first1=Erin \|title=The best books of 2025, according to the Amazon Editors \|url=https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-and-authors/best-books-amazon-2025 \|access-date=19 November 2025 \|work=Amazon \|date=13 November 2025 \|language=en}}</ref>

	==Other works==		==Other works==
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	* 2008 Rathcoola Residency, County Cork, Ireland<ref name=":1" />		* 2008 Rathcoola Residency, County Cork, Ireland<ref name=":1" />
	* 2009 Writer in Residence, [[University of Waikato]]<ref name=":1" />		* 2009 Writer in Residence, [[University of Waikato]]<ref name=":1" />
	* 2010 [[University of Otago]] Wallace Residency, The Pah Homestead, Auckland<ref name=":1" />		* 2010 [[University of Otago]] Wallace Residency, The Pah Homestead, Auckland<ref name=":1" />
	* 2012 [[New Zealand Society of Authors]] Beatson Fellowship<ref name=":1" />		* 2012 [[New Zealand Society of Authors]] Beatson Fellowship<ref name=":1" />
	* 2013 [[Katherine Mansfield Short Story award\|Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award]] for 'Reverse Living'<ref name=":1" />		* 2013 [[Katherine Mansfield Short Story award\|Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award]] for 'Reverse Living'<ref name=":1" />
	* 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Wish Child''<ref name=":0" />		* 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Wish Child''<ref name=":0" />
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	* 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Axeman's Carnival''<ref name="RNZ win"/>		* 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Axeman's Carnival''<ref name="RNZ win"/>
	* 2024 International Dublin Literary Award (longlisted) for ''The Axeman's Carnival'' and ''Pet''<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2024-01-19 \|title=ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees \|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/01/19/245630/anz-authors-among-2024-dublin-literary-award-longlistees/ \|access-date=2024-01-27 \|publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>		* 2024 International Dublin Literary Award (longlisted) for ''The Axeman's Carnival'' and ''Pet''<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2024-01-19 \|title=ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees \|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/01/19/245630/anz-authors-among-2024-dublin-literary-award-longlistees/ \|access-date=2024-01-27 \|publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>
			* 2025 [[Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize]] (longlisted) for "Inflatable World"<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2025-07-16 \|title=2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize longlist announced \|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/07/16/304813/2025-elizabeth-jolley-short-story-prize-longlist-announced/ \|access-date=2025-07-17 \|publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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'''Catherine Chidgey''' (born 8 April 1970) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and university lecturer. She has published nine novels. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters;<ref>James F. English, ''The economy of prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value'', pp. 315, Harvard University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|0-674-01884-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-674-01884-6}}.</ref><ref name="NZ_Herald_1192182">{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=1192182|title=Catherine Chidgey's deeds win top award|date=18 March 2002|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|accessdate=23 September 2011}}</ref> the [[Katherine Mansfield Fellowship]] to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards|New Zealand Book Awards]] and the [[Commonwealth Writers Prize|Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] (South East Asia and Pacific Region); the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] on two occasions;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/92597234/ockham-nz-book-awards-catherine-chidgey-victoria-university-press-the-big-winners|title=Ockham NZ Book Awards: Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press the big winners|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=16 May 2017|language=en|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref> and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-news/janet-frame-fiction-prize-2017-catherine-chidgey|title=Janet Frame Fiction Prize 2017 to Catherine Chidgey {{!}} Booksellers New Zealand|website=www.booksellers.co.nz|language=en|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref>

==Early life and family==
Chidgey was born in [[Auckland]] and grew up in the [[Hutt Valley]].<ref name="Cronin">{{Cite news|last1=Cronin|first1=Aimee|date=28 October 2020|title=Catherine Chidgey by Aimee Cronin & Jane Ussher|url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/page/catherine-chidgey-by-aimee-cronin-and-jane-ussher|access-date=20 January 2021|work=Newsroom}}</ref> At [[Victoria University of Wellington]] she completed a BSc in Psychology, and a BA in German Language and Literature. In 1993 she was awarded a [[German Academic Exchange Service]] scholarship to study at the [[Freie Universität Berlin]]. She returned to Victoria University in 1997 to complete an MA in Creative Writing under [[Bill Manhire]].<ref name="Black">{{Cite web|last=Black|first=Eleanor|date=16 November 2016|title=Catherine Chidgey on infertility and her new novel|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/86531658/catherine-chidgey-on-infertility-and-her-new-novel|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912183708/http://www.stuff.co.nz:80/entertainment/books/86531658/catherine-chidgey-on-infertility-and-her-new-novel |archive-date=12 September 2017 |access-date=20 January 2021|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Chidgey, Catherine|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/chidgey-catherine/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123153425/https://www.read-nz.org/writer/chidgey-catherine/ |archive-date=23 January 2020 |access-date=20 January 2021|website=Read NZ}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Catherine Chidgey|url=https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/brands/Catherine-Chidgey.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604163915/http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/brands/Catherine-Chidgey.html |archive-date=4 June 2013 |access-date=20 January 2021|website=Victoria University Press}}</ref>

{{As of|2021}} she lives in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]] with her husband and daughter.<ref name="Fox">{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Rebecca |title=Treasured objects bring life to writing |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/treasured-objects-bring-life-writing |access-date=12 December 2021 |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |date=14 October 2021}}</ref> Chidgey has explained that the 13-year gap between her third and fourth novels was due to infertility issues keeping her from writing; she and her husband finally had their daughter in 2015.<ref name="Cronin"/>

== Career ==
===Early novels===
Her debut novel, ''In a Fishbone Church'', was published in 1998 and was widely praised in New Zealand and overseas, winning the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction at the [[New Zealand Book Awards]] in 1998. The writer [[Nick Hornby]] said "Catherine Chidgey is a wonderful new talent, and ''In a Fishbone Church'' marks the beginning of what promises to be a glorious literary career".<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|title=In a Fishbone Church |last=Catherine |first=Chidgey |date=2000 |publisher=Picador |isbn=9780330371803| location=London |oclc=42580322}}</ref> [[Louis de Bernières]] called the novel "warm, subtle and evocative. You will be thinking about it long after you have finished reading".<ref name="auto"/> In 1999 ''In a Fishbone Church'' won Best First Book at the [[Commonwealth Writers Prize|Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] (South East Asia and Pacific Region). It also won a [[Betty Trask Prize|Betty Trask Award]] for a first book (UK), and was longlisted for the [[Orange Prize for Fiction]] (UK).

Her second novel, ''Golden Deeds'', was published in 2000, and was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2000 [[New Zealand Book Awards]]. It was published by [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]] in the UK and by [[Henry Holt and Company|Henry Holt]] in the US (under the title ''The Strength of the Sun''), where it was a 2002 Notable Book of the Year in ''[[The New York Times]]'' Book Review, and a 2002 Best Book in the [[Los Angeles Times|''LA Times'']] Book Review. The ''[[The Times Literary Supplement|Times Literary Supplement]]'' called it "magnanimous and merciless, a work reminiscent at times of darkest [[Margaret Atwood|Atwood]] ... A witty and melancholy alchemy of heat and chill, a work of craft and fluency, which revitalizes the book in all its guises ... for those who love books, Catherine Chidgey is a find".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Ali|date=15 September 2000|title=The Stuff of Books|journal=The Times Literary Supplement|pages=23}}</ref> The ''[[Sunday Express]]'' called it "a wonderful, gripping read. Human relations and needs are explored in all their complexity. Chidgey proves herself to be among that elite group of authors who possess a true grasp of the patterns of life".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Tales of isolation and connection|last=Hunt|first=Anna|date=24 September 2000|work=Sunday Express}}</ref> ''[[The Independent On Sunday|The Independent on Sunday]]'' said the novel "ensnares you, creeps up and snaffles you with its small, tense concerns. I could not stop thinking about it. I could not put it down ... I finished ''Golden Deeds'' with that delicious and rare feeling: that I was in the presence of a proper, grown-up storyteller who cared not a toss for gimmicks or manifestoes, but dared instead to put her case with real authorial power and verve".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Refreshingly diffident|last=Myerson|first=Julie|date=5 November 2000|work=The Independent on Sunday}}</ref>

''The Transformation'', Chidgey's third novel, was published in 2003, and that year she was named New Zealand's best novelist under forty by ''[[The New Zealand Listener]]''.<ref>Carolyn Bain, George Dunford, ''Lonely Planet New Zealand'', pp. 48, Lonely Planet, 2006, {{ISBN|1-74104-535-5}}, {{ISBN|978-1-74104-535-2}}.''</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Writers sought for prize |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/337922797 |access-date=5 December 2021 |work=Dominion Post |date=24 May 2003 |page=A12|id={{ProQuest|337922797}} }}</ref> The book tells the story of a shadowy Parisian wig-maker who flees to Tampa, Florida in the 1890s. ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' said that "Chidgey spins a horror story which, miraculously avoiding easy [[sensationalism]], is both troubling and haunting",<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Transformation|date=15 May 2005|work=The Sunday Times}}</ref> and the ''[[The New Zealand Herald|New Zealand Herald]]'' said it was "her third and best so far ... Chidgey could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful from it. She has that gift of the imagination that finds metaphor, contiguity and paradox wherever she looks, and a seemingly innate feel for structuring events, times and historical detail to make one whole, satisfying narrative out of a myriad unexpected parts".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3532419|title=''Catherine Chidgey:'' The Transformation|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=22 July 2017|language=en-NZ}}</ref> ''[[The Sunday Express]]'' remarked, "This really is a novel to get lost in ... A highly original read, as beautiful as it is terrifying, which manages to be riotously chilling without ever going over the top".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Ghoulish Goulet shines in a hair-raising chiller|last=Groskop|first=Viv|date=1 May 2005|work=Sunday Express}}</ref>

===Later novels===
Her fourth novel, ''The Wish Child'', set in Nazi Germany, was published in New Zealand in 2016 and was a bestseller, winning the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2017-awards/winners/|title=Winners {{!}} New Zealand Book Awards Trust|website=www.nzbookawards.nz|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref>—the country's richest literary prize. [[Radio New Zealand]] called it "a brilliant, brilliant novel ... a masterpiece".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201825704/book-review-the-wish-child|title=Book Review – The Wish Child {{!}} Nine To Noon, 10:38 am on 29 November 2016 {{!}} RNZ|date=29 November 2016|work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |access-date=21 July 2017|language=en-nz}}</ref> The ''[[The New Zealand Herald|New Zealand Herald]]'' found it "meticulously crafted and superbly written ... provocative, haunting, intelligent and lyrical ... breath-taking... It will stay with you long after you finish the final page".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Haunting and deeply evocative|last=Christian|first=Dionne|date=17 December 2016|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] }}</ref> The ''[[The Sunday Star-Times|Sunday Star-Times]]'' commented "Right from the first sentences I was caught up in the exquisite lure of the writing: musical, clear, lovingly tended. Nothing seems forced ... I loved this book with its subterranean mysteries and spiky issues. I love the way, at this critical point in the world, when fundamental human values are violated, ''The Wish Child'' reminds us with grace and understated wisdom of a need to strive for universal good. I ached as I read. This novel is unmissable".<ref>{{Cite news|title=New work fulfils all our wishes|last=Green|first=Paula|date=27 November 2016|work=The Sunday Star-Times}}</ref> It was published in the UK in July 2017 by [[Chatto & Windus]], with ''[[The Times]]'' calling it "a remarkable book with a stunningly original twist".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/one-surrogate-one-donor-three-modern-families-t25zm99lr|title=One surrogate, one donor, three modern families|last=Midgley|first=Carol|access-date=21 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> In October 2018 [[Counterpoint (publisher)|Counterpoint]] published it in the US as a lead Fall title.

Her fifth book was released in November 2017. A '[[Found poetry|found']] novel, ''The Beat of the Pendulum'' was written during 2016, with Chidgey drawing on newspaper articles, Facebook posts, emails, radio broadcasts, books, street signs and conversations to create an entry for every day of the year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pantograph-punch.com/post/catherine_chidgey|title=A Year Found: A conversation with Catherine Chidgey|website=Pantograph Punch|language=en|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> Radio New Zealand selected it as a Best Book of 2017, calling it "Important in terms of its form as much as its content ... sensationally clever writing ... an enormously skilled writer who totally gets the craft".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018629251/nz-books-review-best-of-2017|title=NZ Books Review – Best of 2017|date=24 January 2018|accessdate=14 June 2018}}</ref> It was longlisted for the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2018-awards/longlist/|title=2018 Awards Longlist | New Zealand Book Awards Trust}}</ref> and was published in the UK by Lightning Books in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eye-books.com/books/the-beat-of-the-pendulum|title=The Beat of the Pendulum by Catherine Chidgey | Eye Books}}</ref>

Chidgey's sixth book, ''Remote Sympathy'', was published in 2020, and like ''The Wish Child'' is set in Nazi Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catherine Chidgey Products – Victoria University Press|url=https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/brands/Catherine-Chidgey.html|access-date=29 January 2021|website=vup.victoria.ac.nz}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=3 March 2021|title=Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/03/163470/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=3 March 2021|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303005617/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/03/163470/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=3 March 2021 }}</ref> It was a ''Sunday Times'' Book of the Month,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rennison |first1=Nick |title=The Sunday Times picks of the best new historical novels for April 2021 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/the-sunday-times-picks-of-the-best-new-historical-novels-for-april-2021-gx00rs3d7 |access-date=12 December 2021 |work=The Sunday Times |date=23 April 2021}}</ref> and was described by ''[[The Guardian]]'' as "immersive, profound and beautifully plotted".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dass |first1=Kiran |title=Short stories leave authors nowhere to hide. But Ockham winner Beautrais nails it every time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/13/short-stories-leave-authors-nowhere-to-hide-but-ockham-winner-beautrais-nails-it-every-time |access-date=12 December 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=13 May 2021}}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' praised Chidgey's exploration of the intersecting stories of former Nazis and Holocaust survivors, concluding: "With its multiple registers and complex view of humanity, this marks a vital turn in Holocaust literature".<ref>{{cite news |title=Remote Sympathy |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60945-627-6 |access-date=12 December 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=15 March 2021}}</ref> It was one of New Zealand's top ten best-selling novels in 2021,<ref>{{cite news |last=Braunias |first=Steve |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-best-selling-books-of-2021 |access-date=24 December 2021 |date=24 December 2021 |title=The best-selling books of 2021 |work=Newsroom}}</ref> was shortlisted for the 2022 [[International Dublin Literary Award]],<ref name="Dublin">{{cite news |title=Chidgey shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/04/04/212558/chidgey-shortlisted-for-dublin-literary-award/ |access-date=11 August 2022 |work=Books+Publishing |date=4 April 2022}}</ref> and was longlisted for the 2022 [[Women's Prize for Fiction]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=8 March 2022 |title=Announcing the Women's Prize 2022 longlist! |url=https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-womens-prize-2022-longlist |access-date=8 March 2022 |website=Women's Prize for Fiction}}</ref> In 2022 it was named by ''The Guardian'' as one of the best books of the year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jordan |first1=Justine |title=Best fiction of 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/03/best-fiction-of-2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=3 December 2022}}</ref>

In October 2022, her seventh novel, ''The Axeman's Carnival'', was published. Set in [[Central Otago]], the novel tells the story of the relationship of a farming couple and is narrated by a magpie called Tama.<ref name="Cook">{{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=Marjorie |title=High country life through a magpie's eyes |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/high-country-life-through-magpie%E2%80%99s-eyes |access-date=4 December 2022 |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |date=12 November 2022}}</ref> Chidgey drew from her husband's family's farming experiences in writing the novel.<ref name="King">{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Rachael |title=Book of the Week: Bird of the year |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/book-of-the-week-alone-we-are-born |access-date=4 December 2022 |work=Newsroom |date=20 October 2022}}</ref> [[Rachael King]], reviewing the book for ''[[Newsroom (website)|Newsroom]]'', described it as "remarkable, brilliant, a classic in the making", with Tama's voice providing "dark poetry, dramatic irony, startling wisdom and trickster delights".<ref name="King"/> The book was second on the list of New Zealand fiction bestsellers in 2023,<ref name="2023 best">{{cite news |last1=Braunias |first1=Steve |title=Bestselling books of 2023 |url=https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/22/the-bestselling-books-of-2023/ |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=Newsroom |date=22 December 2023}}</ref> and won New Zealand's top book award, the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref name="RNZ win">{{cite news |title=Catherine Chidgey wins major prize at 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/490114/catherine-chidgey-wins-major-prize-at-2023-ockham-new-zealand-book-awards |access-date=18 May 2023 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |date=17 May 2023 |language=en-nz}}</ref>

In 2023, her eighth novel, ''Pet'', a thriller about the relationship between a 12-year-old girl and her schoolteacher, was published in New Zealand, the UK and the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-04 |title=Books of the month, from Colson Whitehead to Selina Mills |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-july-review-colson-whitehead-crook-manifesto-serena-mills-b2365716.html |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Hephzibah |date=2023-07-02 |title=Pet by Catherine Chidgey review – sly psychological thriller |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/02/pet-by-catherine-chidgey-review-sly-psychological-thriller |access-date=2023-08-14 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Allfree |first=Claire |date=2023-07-10 |title=The sinister, slow-burn downfall of a teacher's pet |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/review-pet-catherine-chidgey/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> [[Ruth Franklin]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it a "lingering, haunting book", and "a landmark in the small but potent canon of contemporary novels about unusual girls reckoning with themselves and the world around them".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Franklin |first=Ruth |date=2023-08-06 |title=When the Favor of a Beloved Schoolteacher Turns Sinister |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/books/review/catherine-chidgey-pet.html |access-date=2023-08-14 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was the fifth best-selling fiction book in New Zealand in 2023.<ref name="2023 best"/> Along with ''The Axeman's Carnival'', it was long-listed for the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award.<ref name="Potential">{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Josie |title=Catherine Chidgey's The Book of Guilt 'a potential book of the year' |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/catherine-chidgey-s-the-book-of-guilt-a-potential-book-of-the-year |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=9 May 2025 |language=en-nz}}</ref>

Her ninth novel, ''The Book of Guilt'', was published in 2025.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mabey |first=Claire |date=2025-05-08 |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed |title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed |work=The Spinoff}}</ref> Set in an alternative dystopian version of 1970s England, the novel is primarily narrated by one of three identical triplets raised in a children's home. Claire Mabey in ''[[The Spinoff]]'' described the novel as asking the reader to question "what it means to be alive in a human body that can learn, dream and think for itself", while grappling with contemporary political themes of dehumanisation and morality.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mabey |first1=Claire |title=An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewed |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/08-05-2025/the-book-of-the-year-the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-reviewed |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=The Spinoff |date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' described it as a "compulsively readable story that raises profound questions", although noted that it would inevitably be compared to ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]'' by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Clare |title=The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey review – this dystopia could have been extraordinary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/21/the-book-of-guilt-by-catherine-chidgey-review-this-dystopia-could-have-been-extraordinary |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=21 May 2025}}</ref>

==Other works==
{{As of|2022}}, Chidgey is a senior lecturer of creative writing at the [[University of Waikato]] and has also taught at the [[Manukau Institute of Technology]].<ref name="Black"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Top writer joins Waikato |url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2018/top-writer-joins-waikato |access-date=12 December 2021 |website=University of Waikato |date=16 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="Cronin"/><ref name="Caws">{{cite web|title=Caws and claws: two new fiction books from Catherine Chidgey |url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2022/caws-and-claws-two-new-fiction-books-from-catherine-chidgey |access-date=4 December 2022 |website=University of Waikato |date=28 October 2022}}</ref> In her role at Waikato she founded the [[Sargeson Prize]], New Zealand's richest short story competition.<ref name="Fox"/>

Chidgey has translated more than a dozen children's picture books from the German for [[Gecko Press]]. In November 2019, OneTree House published her first original picture book, ''Jiffy, Cat Detective'', illustrated by Astrid Matijasevich.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.onetree-house.com/product-page/jiffy-cat-detective-catherine-chidgey-astrid-matijasevich|title = Jiffy, Cat Detective – Catherine Chidgey / Astrid Matijasevich}}</ref> A follow-up, ''Jiffy's Greatest Hits'', was published in 2022.<ref name="Caws"/>

== Awards and honours ==
* 1997 Adam Foundation Prize for ''In a Fishbone Church''<ref name=":0" />
* 1998 Todd New Writer's Bursary<ref name=":1" />
* 1998 Sargeson Fellowship<ref name=":0" />
* 1999 [[Betty Trask Award]] for ''In a Fishbone Church''<ref name=":0" />
* 1999 Best First Book, [[Commonwealth Writers Prize|Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] (South East Asia and Pacific Region) for ''In a Fishbone Church''<ref name=":1" />
* 2001 [[Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship]] to Menton, France<ref name=":0" />
* 2002 Prize in Modern Letters<ref name=":0" />
* 2003 Writer in Residence, [[University of Canterbury]]<ref name=":1" />
* 2005-6 [[Robert Burns Fellowship|Robert Burns Fellow]], [[University of Otago]]<ref name=":0" />
* 2008 Rathcoola Residency, County Cork, Ireland<ref name=":1" />
* 2009 Writer in Residence, [[University of Waikato]]<ref name=":1" />
* 2010 [[University of Otago]] Wallace Residency, The Pah Homestead, Auckland<ref name=":1" />
* 2012 [[New Zealand Society of Authors]] Beatson Fellowship<ref name=":1" />
* 2013 [[Katherine Mansfield Short Story award|Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award]] for 'Reverse Living'<ref name=":1" />
* 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Wish Child''<ref name=":0" />
* 2017 Janet Frame Fiction Prize<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wellington|first=Victoria University of|date=3 May 2018|title=Catherine Chidgey wins Janet Frame Fiction Prize {{!}} News {{!}} Victoria University of Wellington|url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2017/07/catherine-chidgey-wins-janet-frame-fiction-prize|access-date=20 January 2021|website=www.wgtn.ac.nz|language=en}}</ref>
* 2018 [[International Dublin Literary Award]] (longlisted) for ''The Wish Child''<ref>{{Cite web|title=2018 Printable Longlist – International DUBLIN Literary Award|url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/news/2018-printable-longlist/|access-date=20 January 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=1 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701041824/https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/news/2018-printable-longlist/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction (longlisted) for ''Remote Sympathy''<ref name=":2" />
* 2022 International Dublin Literary Award (shortlisted) for ''Remote Sympathy''<ref name="Dublin"/>
* 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]] for ''The Axeman's Carnival''<ref name="RNZ win"/>
* 2024 International Dublin Literary Award (longlisted) for ''The Axeman's Carnival'' and ''Pet''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-19 |title=ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/01/19/245630/anz-authors-among-2024-dublin-literary-award-longlistees/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

==See also==
{{portal|Novels}}
* [[New Zealand literature]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.read-nz.org/writer/chidgey-catherine/ Read NZ Te Pou Muramura profile]
* [https://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/cchidgey University of Waikato profile]
* {{Twitter|id=CathChidgey}}
{{Robert Burns Fellowship}}
{{Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellows}}
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