Awards General Writing Grant for Fiction, Literature Board of Australia Council, 1978 Writing Grants for Fiction, New Zealand Literary Fund, 1982 and 1983 AW Reed Memorial Book Award, 1984 Grant for Non-fiction, New Zealand Literary Fund, 1985 Second Prize, Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award, 1988 South East Asia and South Pacific Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1988 Writing Grant for Fiction, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, 1990 Scholarship in Letters, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, 1991 Writing Grant for Fiction, Arts Council of New Zealand, 1994 Arts Excellence Award, Trust Bank Canterbury Trust, New Zealand, 1996 Travel Grant, Foreign Ministry, Federal Republic of Germany, 1997 Arts Development Grant for Literature, Arts Council of New Zealand, 1997 Writer's Award, CLL New Zealand, 2006 Academic Qalifications BA, University of Canterbury, 1973 MA 1st Class Honours, University of Canterbury, 1975 PhD, Australian National University, 1978 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Canterbury, 1981 Writing Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, 1986 Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa, 1992