Ms Elizabeth Knox, CNZM, of Wellington, for services to literature
Ms Elizabeth Knox, CNZM, of Wellington, for services to literature
Elizabeth Knox was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 for her services to literature. She has continued to write critically acclaimed books, including her first young adult series, ‘The Dreamhunter Duet’, and has won both national and international awards for her novels and literary collections. Her collection of personal essays, titled ‘The Love School’, won the biography section of the New Zealand Book Awards. Her book ‘Mortal Fire’ won the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Award for Young Adult Fiction and was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. In 2019, she published ‘The Absolute Book’ and was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Ms Knox currently teaches a World Building workshop for fiction at Victoria University of Wellington.