Debra Daley
New Zealand author
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Debra Daley is a New Zealand author.
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Daley was born in New Zealand and is of Irish heritage.[1] She grew up in the west of Auckland and graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA in English Literature.[2] She currently lives in the Bay of Plenty.[3]
Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas Universal Drive, The Shadow Trader, At the End of the Day, Pristine.[2]
Daley has published three novels, The Revelations of Carey Ravine (2016),[4] Turning the Stones (2014),[5] and The Strange Letter Z (1996).[6] The Revelations of Carey Ravine and Turning the Stones are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her first novel, The Strange Letter Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s.[7] She has also published a number of short stories.[2]
In 1992 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award.[8] She received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship in 2013 with Toa Fraser.[9] In 2005 she was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.[10]