Stevan Eldred-Grigg


Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a New Zealand author of ten novels, eleven history books and various essays and short stories.

Writings

In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history PhD thesis at Australian National University called 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880-1914' [1]

In 1987 he published his first novel, Oracles and Miracles, the story of two sisters growing up in Christchurch before and during World War II.[2]

Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when Oracles and Miracles, was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹.[3][2]

Bibliography

Novels:

  • Oracles and Miracles (Penguin, 1987)
  • The Siren Celia (Penguin, 1989)
  • The Shining City (Penguin, 1991)
  • Gardens of Fire (Penguin, 1993)
  • Mum (Penguin, 1995)
  • Blue Blood (Penguin, 1997)
  • Sheng Xian Qu Ji (Yi-wen Shanghai, 2002)
  • Shanghai Boy (Random House, 2006)
  • Bangs (Penguin, 2013)
  • Pru Goes Troppo (Piwaiwaka Press, 2020)

History:

  • A Southern Gentry (AH & AW Reed, 1980, 1986)
  • A New History of Canterbury (John McIindoe, 1982)
  • Pleasures of the Flesh, (Reed Methuen, 1984)
  • New Zealand Working People (Dunmore Press, 1990)
  • The Rich (Penguin, 1996)
  • Niu Xilan de Wenxue Lucheng (Unitas Taipei, 2004)
  • Diggers, Hatters and Whores (Random House, 2008)
  • The Great Wrong War: New Zealand Society in the First World War (Random House, 2010)
  • People, People, People (David Bateman, 2011)
  • White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand 1790-1950 (Otago University Press, 2014)
  • Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War (Otago University Press, 2017)

Essays:

  • My History, I Think (Penguin, 1994)

References
  1. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/128316
  2. "Oracles and Miracles". Stevan Eldred-Grigg. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  3. "Chinese Edition of New Zealand's First Contemporary Novel Released in China". en.people.cn. Retrieved 1 June 2016.


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