McGee awarded 2013 NZ$75,000 Menton Fellowship

27 November 2012 Books+Publishing

Playwright and author Greg McGee has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2013.

The Fellowship provides the winner with a residency of at least six months in Menton, France, where Mansfield lived and wrote during the latter part of her life, and NZ$75,000 (A$59,000).

McKee, who uses the pseudonym Alix Bosco, is the author of award-winning crime novels Cut and Run (2009) and Slaughter Falls (2010) reports Booksellers New Zealand. He plans to use the residency to work on his fourth novel, set in New Zealand and Italy.

The Menton Fellowship, which is open to established and mid-career New Zealand writers, is an initiative of the Winn-Manson Menton Trust and is administered by Creative New Zealand.

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