Sheridan Keith
{{short description|New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator}}
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Sheridan Keith (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator.
Life and career
Keith was born in Wellington in 1942.{{cite news |last1=Sharp |first1=Iain |title=Sexuality fascinates book awards winner |work=Sunday Star-Times |date=4 August 1996 |page=E6}}{{cite web |title=Keith, Sheridan |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/keith-sheridan/ |website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |access-date=4 March 2021}} She is the daughter of ceramic artist and painter June Black.{{cite news |last1=Downs |first1=Sarah |title=Favourite Things: Artist and Author Sheridan Keith |url=https://www.viva.co.nz/article/at-home/artist-author-sheridan-keith/ |access-date=4 March 2021 |work=Viva |date=13 August 2017}} She studied zoology and English literature at Victoria University of Wellington.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Cooper |first=Ronda |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Wattie |editor2-first=Nelson |encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature |title=Keith, Sheridan |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-640 |access-date=4 March 2021 |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1917-3519-6 |oclc=865265749 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001}} During the 1960s she spent a decade living in London, and returned to New Zealand in 1974, where she worked as a journalist for several years before beginning to write fiction.
Her work has included broadcasting, journalism and teaching creative writing, and her writing has been published in The London Magazine, Landfall, the New Zealand Listener and other magazines. Her first collection of short stories, Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket (1991) was shortlisted in the Best First Book category of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her first novel, Zoology (1995), grew out of a short story included in her second collection of short stories, Animal Passions (1992). It won the Fiction Award at the 1996 Montana Book Awards.{{cite web |title=Past Winners: 1995 |url=https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners/?year=1996 |website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust |access-date=4 March 2021}} Academic Terry Sturm said Keith's short stories "focus on the practices and aspirations of women in a demanding world".{{cite book | last=Sturm | first=Terry | title=The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Auckland, N.Z. | date=1991 | isbn=0-19-558211-X |page=313| oclc=24378310}}
Since around 1995, Keith has owned a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland.{{cite news |title=North Shore treasure trove |work= The New Zealand Herald |date=11 March 2005}}
References
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External links
- [https://culturalicons.co.nz/75-sheridan-keith/ Interview with Sheridan Keith for Cultural Icons project]
- [https://www.read-nz.org/writer/keith-sheridan/ Biography] at Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
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Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:People from Wellington City
Category:20th-century New Zealand women writers
Category:20th-century New Zealand writers
Category:Writers from Wellington City
Category:New Zealand women curators
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