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Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair is a writer from Aotearoa based in Naarm. Her first novel, The Modern, was published by Scribner in September 2023.

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Anna Kate Blair is a writer from Aotearoa based in Naarm. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Cordite, Slow Canoe, Archer, Meanjin, The Big Issue’s Fiction Edition, Landfall, The Lifted Brow and other publications. Anna has won awards including the Wyndham Short Story Prize, the AAWP Slow Canoe Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Warren Trust Award for Architectural Writing. She holds a PhD in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Cambridge and has previously herself worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Modern, published by Scribner in September 2023, is her first novel.

Anna Kate Blair

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