Christine Johnston (writer)

Christine Johnston (born 4 January 1950) is a novelist from New Zealand.

Her fiction has been broadcast on national radio and appeared in journals, including Landfall, Metro, and Sport.

Her writing is often set in the suburbs and towns of New Zealand and deals with everyday aspects of life and interactions, including the Themes also included childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

[2] Her novel, Blessed Art Though Among Women, won the Heinemann Reed Fiction Award in 1990.

[3] In 1994 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.