Paddy Richardson is a writer who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand and has published two collections of short stories,'Choices'(Hard Echo Press, 1986) and 'If We Were Lebanese' [Steele Roberts, 2003), and three novels, 'The Company of a Daughter' (Steele Roberts, 2000), A Year to Learn A Woman' (Penguin, 2008) and 'Hunting Blind' (Penguin, 2010). Her work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and on radio, and has been highly commended in several writing competitions, including the Katherine Mansfield and Sunday Star Times Short Story Awards. She has been awarded the University of Otago Burns Fellowship, the Beatson fellowship and the University of Otago/James Wallace residency.

Life

Richardson lives and writes in Broad Bay, a beach settlement on the Otago Peninsula]. She wrote part of her second novel, A Year to Learn A Woman while living on the Kapiti Coast

Kapiti Coast

The Kapiti Coast is the name of the section of the coast of the south-western North Island of New Zealand that is north of Wellington and opposite Kapiti Island. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Regional Council...

 after being awarded the $6000 Foxton Fellowship, which included a month's residency in a cottage at Foxton Beach

Foxton Beach

Foxton Beach is a small settlement in the Horowhenua District of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the South Taranaki Bight at the mouth of the Manawatu River, 35 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North, and six kilometres west of Foxton. Foxton Beach...

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Novels

• 2000: The Company of A Daughter (Steele Roberts)
• 2008: A Year to Learn A Woman (Penguin Books
  Penguin Books
  Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
  
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• 2010: Hunting Blind (Penguin Books
  Penguin Books
  Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
  
  )(scheduled for a February release)

Other Writing

• 2003: If We Were Lebanese (collection of short stories)
• 1986: Choices (collection of short stories)