The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was founded in 2010, and is awarded for the best mystery, crime, or thriller novel written by a New Zealander (citizen or resident) published during the previous year. The award branched out to include two different categories a number of years later; the Ngaio Marsh Award for First Novel started in 2016, followed by the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non Fiction in 2017.
Queens of crime combine: Money in the morgue
Taking over from Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the original Queens of Crime, would be a daunting prospect for any writer, but Stella Duffy (winner of the CWA Dagger Award, and Stonewall Writer of the Year) has beautifully risen to this task in the new inspector Alleyn novel, 'Money in the Morgue'. Set in New…
Ngaio Marsh and Shakespeare
There's a Ngaio Marsh birthday party event at Christ's College Old Boys Theatre this Sunday 24 April. The event is a fundraiser for the Ngaio Marsh House and Heritage Trust, and includes wine, nibbles, and a talk on crime fiction by Professor Ken Strongman. Find out more on the Ngaio Marsh birthday event on Facebook…
Ngaio Marsh – Crime writer now in eBooks
Ngaio Marsh was so much more than a crime writer. But remember we have over 30 of her crime novels as eBooks. …
Happy birthday, Ngaio Marsh!
Ngaio Marsh would have been 120 today. This world renowned crime writer and theatre director was born Edith Ngaio Marsh in Fendalton on 23 April 1895. Her father, a clerk, built Marton Cottage at Cashmere in 1906. This was her home for the rest of her life, although she spent significant periods in England. Ngaio…
Early New Zealand Women Writers. Some of their work described as racy and corrupting!
Check out some of our pioneer women writers. Some wrote very controversial books; many were published overseas and became hugely popular. The Butcher Shop by Jean Devanny Set on a King Country Station, Jean Devanny’s The Butcher Shop is about adultery and murder. It was described as disgusting, polemic and ahead of its time. It…
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