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McNaughton, Iona
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Iona McNaughton

Wellington - Te Whanganui-a-Tara
McNaughton, Iona
In brief
Iona McNaughton writes fiction for young adults. Her novel, Summer of Shadows, was awarded the Tom Fitzgibbon Award for previously unpublished writers in 1996 and it was also shortlisted for the senior category of the 1998 Aim Children's Book Awards. She has published a range of stories, many of which can be found in School Journal, a magazine for New Zealand schoolchildren.
Bio

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

McNaughton, Iona (1954 –) writes for young adults and has also had a number of stories published in the School Journal. She has also had work published in story collections for children.

Iona McNaughton grew up on a farm in Southland, leaving home to go to Otago University in Dunedin. She works as a writer and an editor, and also teaches children's writing at Onslow Community Education.

McNaughton’s books for young adults include Summer of Shadows (Scholastic, 1997) and One-way Ticket (Scholastic, 2004). Summer of Shadows received the Tom Fitzgibbon Award for previously unpublished writers in 1996; the novel was also short-listed for the senior category of the 1998 Aim Children’s Book Awards.

In a review of Summer of Shadows in The Dominion, Norman Bilbrough writes, ‘The big issues of death, sexual trust and painful independence are explored here, and it’s told without pretension, just good accessible prose which pulls the reader inexorably along.’ Barbara Murison, reviewing One-way Ticket in Around the Bookshops, describes the novel as 'truly hard to put down.’


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