Description: Fiona Farrell is one of New Zealand's leading novelists, poets, and short story writers.
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Fiona Farrell's new novel, The Deck, was published by Penguin Random House NZ in April 2023. It borrows motifs from Boccaccio's 14th century masterpiece, The Decameron, to explore the role of storytelling in a time of plague and social collapse.
Farrell's novels are noted for their originality and lively intelligence. She is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, receiving critical acclaim across a variety of genres. Uniquely she has been a finalist in all three categories at the NZ Book Awards, for fiction, non-fiction and poetry.