Stevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is a New Zealand author of thirteen novels, eleven history books and various essays and short stories.
His works of fiction and non-fiction explore the West Coast, Canterbury, the wider South Island and the whole of New Zealand.
[1] In 1978 Eldred-Grigg completed a history PhD thesis at Australian National University called 'The pastoral families of the Hunter Valley, 1880–1914' [2] In 1987 he published his first novel, Oracles and Miracles, the story of two sisters growing up in Christchurch before and during World War II.
[3] It won second place in the 1988 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards and subsequently was adapted for stage and radio.
[5] Eldred-Grigg was the first living New Zealand writer of literary fiction to have had a novel translated into Chinese when Oracles and Miracles, was published in Shanghai in 2002 under the title ‘剩’贤奇迹.