New Zealand Writers

WHITE, Judith

White is second to none when it comes to depicting states of anxiety, both comic and poignant.

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WHITE, Judith (1948 - ) is a fiction writer who has won awards for her short fiction, including the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Centenary Award for a collection of thirteen stories. She has twice won the Auckland Star short story competition, in 1987 and 1990.

White's first collection of short fiction Visiting Ghosts (1991) was shortlisted for the fiction section of what is now known as the Montana New Zealand Books Awards. Her novel Across the Dreaming Night (1999) is shortlisted for the fiction section of the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

In the Sunday Star Times Iain Sharpe writes: "White is second to none when it comes to depicting states of anxiety, both comic and poignant. And the brilliance with which she enters into her characters' aberrant states of mind, signals a major talent."

Elspeth Sandys writes in the New Zealand Herald: "Across the Dreaming Night remains in my mind as a fine piece of writing, haunting and sad, with occasional flashes of humour and a marvellously unexpected ending."

(KC.)