22 Dec 2024

The year that was with acclaimed writer and columnist Charlotte Grimshaw

From Culture 101, 12:30 pm on 22 December 2024
Acclaimed New Zealand author Charlotte Grimshaw.

Photo: Jane Ussher

Charlotte Grimshaw

Charlotte Grimshaw Photo: Supplied by Penguin RandomHouse NZ. Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust

Charlotte Grimshaw has been named the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa 2025 President of Honour.

She is the author of eleven works, including critically acclaimed novels, two outstanding collections of linked stories and a best-selling memoir.

Charlotte was awarded the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, as her father, renowned author C.K.Stead was in 1972.

The fellowship is awarded annually to a New Zealand writer to live and write for three months in Menton.

She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France, her new novel and her highlights of 2024.