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Dreamquake reviews:
Richly layered and thoroughly enthralling, Knox's literary duet is a unique blend of fantasy and history that stands out as a stunning achievement in recent young adult literature.
School Library Journal
Thoroughly impressive, for its sure, literary prose, nuanced characters, and fully realized Edwardian setting, but even more so for its original, surprising imagery and plot. An involving, and challenging read, Knox’s fantasy is outstanding in its ability to make us think both poetically and analytically about human nature.
The Horn Book
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Elizabeth Knox
2000 Laureate
Writer
Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand's most well-known writers.
She is the author of three short novels (published together as The High Jump and seven novels. The Vintner's Luck is her best-known work to date, winner of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prize, the Montana Book Awards' Deutz medal for fiction, and now published in eight countries.
Elizabeth's fifth novel, Black Oxen, was released in New Zealand and the US in 2001, and her sixth novel, Billie's Kiss was published in March 2002. Billie's Kiss was a finalist in the Montana Book Awards. In March 2001 Elizabeth won the prestigious Tasmania Pacific Region Prize for best novel for The Vintner's Luck, ahead of works by leading New Zealand and Australian
authors. The Vintner's Luck has also been translated into French and was shortlisted for the Porix Ville De Saumur in the Esprit Baccus section and has been developed as a screen adaptation by Nicky Caro and is presently in production.
Elizabeth's Novel Daylight (2003) was shortlisted for Best Book in the South Pacific & South East Asian Region of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Dreamhunter (HarperCollins, 2005) is a fast-paced and dazzlingly imaginative. It draws the reader into an extraordinary fictional world in which dreams are as vividly described as the cream cakes in the tea shop, the sand on the beach or the memories of first love. Part Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, Dreamquake, Early in 2008 Elizabeth was phoned from America to be told that Dreamquake had become a Michael Printz Honour Book. With a similar selection process to the Laureate Awards, recipients of this “Academy Awards” of children’s literature do not know their books are under consideration.
Elizabeth was the 1997 Writer in Residence at Victoria University, Wellington and in 1999 the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, France. She was made an Officer of the said Order (ONZM) in the June 2002 New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honours.
Elizabeth lives in Wellington with her husband and son.
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