Randall, Charlotte
IN BRIEF
Charlotte Randall is a novelist. Her first book won two prestigious awards and her later novels have also been nominated for national awards. Randall’s subject matter is varied, and ranges from the effects of medical science to the implications of a man’s incarceration in a 19th century mental asylum. Relationships within families are a recurring element in Randall’s fiction.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randall, Charlotte ( - ) is a novelist whose first book Dead Sea Fruit (1995) won the Reed Fiction Award and the Best First Book award in the South East Asia / Pacific section of the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The book tells of two Dunedin families in the 1960s and 1970s.
Her second novel is The Curative (2000). Marion McLeod writes in New Zealand Books 'This is an amazing and amazingly good novel... truly exceptional.' The novel is told by a man incarcerated in a 19th century mental asylum.
The Curative was runner up in the Fiction section of the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Born and raised in Dunedin, Randall attended the University of Canterbury. She now lives in Wellington, and is working on a third novel.
Charlotte Randall was the 2000 Victoria University of Wellington writing Fellow.
Charlotte Randall was one of four authors shortlisted for the inaugural Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters. With a cash award of $60,000 it is Australasia's most lucrative literary award.
Randall's novel Within The Kiss (2002) is a satiric retelling of the story of Faust, against a modern tennis background. The thirst for knowledge has been replaced by obsession.
Within The Kiss was written during her term as the Victoria University of Wellington Writing Fellow in 2000.
What Happen Then, Mr Bones? (Penguin Books, 2004) follows the fortunes, both good and bad, of one family and shows how deeply their lives, and deaths, are affected by achievements and misadventures in medical science.
What Happen Then, Mr Bones? was a finalist in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005.
Charlotte Randall is the University of Canterbury's Writer in Residence 2005.
The Crocus Hour (Penguin, 2008) is a story of love and grief, set in Crete.
