Meg Mason
New Zealand author
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Meg Mason is a New Zealand author and journalist. Her 2020 novel Sorrow and Bliss won the British Book Awards 2022 Fiction Book of the Year.
- Journalist
- novelist
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| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Notable works | Sorrow and Bliss |
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Career
Mason lived in the United Kingdom for five years during which time she wrote for the Financial Times and The Times before moving to Sydney and starting a career as a freelance journalist.[1] She has written for a number of magazines including Vogue, Elle and GQ.[1]
She published her first book Say It Again in a Nice Voice in 2012 and her first novel You Be Mother in 2017.[1] Sorrow and Bliss is Mason's third book and the first to be released in the UK.[1] It won the British Book Awards 2022 Fiction Book of the Year.[2] Her novel was also shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards' Literary fiction book of the year in 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022.[1][3][4] Film and television rights for Sorrow and Bliss were sold to New Regency.[5]
Personal life
Mason lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters.[6]
Bibliography
- Mason, Meg (2012). Say It Again in a Nice Voice.
- Mason, Meg (2017). You Be Mother.
- Mason, Meg (2020). Sorrow and Bliss.