N.I. writer wins award

Press, 4 September 1989, Page 9

N.I. writer wins award

A Palmerston North writer, Ms Noeline Arnott, has won the Mobil “Dominion Sunday Times” Short Story Award for her story, “Different Places.” The story, about an English woman living in Turkey, “stood out considerably from the rest (of the entrants),” said the competition’s judge, Malcolm Bradbury, a British novelist and lecturer. Ms Arnott received $5OOO and a silver trophy. Ms Arrnott is no stranger to writing awards, according to the Mobil public affairs officer, Ms Sonja Matla. In 1986, she won the American Express Short Story Award, and won second and third places in the “Evening Standard” short story competition this year. Much of her earlier work was published under the pen-names of Noel Bosker and Natalie Arnott, but her more recent stories have appeared under her own name. She is married with a daughter, son and two grandchildren. The Newcomer’s trophy and $l5OO award for best short story by a previously unpublished writer went to Ms Rebekah Judd, of Hamilton. A Christchurch woman, Ms Isa Moynihan, was a finalist in the newcomer’s section.