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Fiction writer and poet Emma Neale has been awarded the NZ Authors’ Janet Frame Memorial Award. This award is offered to a mid-career writer to assist in furthering their writing career. Emma is the daughter of well known fiction writers and editors Barbara Else and Chris Else and was born in Dunedin, where she still lives. She received her PhD from University College, London. Night Swimming, her first novel was published in 1998 and Sleeve-notes, her first collection of poetry was published in 1999. She has published three other novels, with Relative Strangers the most recent. Her most recent collection of poetry, Spark, was published early this year.