Writers | Victoria University of Wellington
21 November 2016
Author Anna Smaill’s debut The Chimes won best novel at the 2016 World Fantasy Awards in Ohio, United States, a “wonderful honour”, the Victoria University lecturer said.
“I’m really happy. The authors on the shortlist…
Writers | The Man Booker Prizes
1 August 2015
New Zealand author Anna Smaill has been longlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize with her debut novel The Chimes.
“Just dropped in to check my email before bed and … now can’t…
Writers | Harper's Bazaar | Independent (The)
9 March 2015
According to the Independent, New Zealand author Anna Smaill’s debut novel The Chimes is “superb … intriguing, ambitious and strikingly written.” Harper’s Bazaar tips it for “book of the year.”
The setting is a dystopian…
Writers | Independent (The)
12 February 2015
New Zealand poet Anna Smaill’s debut novel The Chimes, reviewed in the Independent, is “dystopian fiction but not quite as we know it.”
“Smaill draws on her training as a classical violinist to create a…