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Elizabeth Knox

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Elizabeth Knox

Novelist Elizabeth Knox is one of a number of younger writers whose works use locations both within and beyond New Zealand. Her best-known novel, The vintner’s luck (1998), is set in 19th-century France. It has won numerous awards and has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands and Israel.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Creative life – Writing and publishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4482/elizabeth-knox (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 3 March 2009.