Background
Fiona Kidman was born on March 26, 1940 in Hawera, New Zealand, into the family of Hugh and Flora Cameron (Small) Eakin.
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1992
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2011
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Fiona Kidman was born on March 26, 1940 in Hawera, New Zealand, into the family of Hugh and Flora Cameron (Small) Eakin.
Fiona Judith Kidman worked as a librarian in Rotorua after leaving school. She began her writing career as a freelance journalist in the early 1960s and was mentored by Bruce Mason and William Austin in theatre and radio theatre. Her first of eight novels was published in 1979, and she has also published four short story collections and four collections of poetry.
Kidman is active in the literary community, serving as the national president of PEN from 1981 to 1983 and as the president of the New Zealand Book Council from 1992 to 1995. In 1988 she founded and ran the Fiona Kidman Creative Writing School, which is now part of Whitireia Community Polytechnic. She was Meridian Energy's Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow for 2006, and President of Honour of the New Zealand Book Council.
Fiona married Ernest Ian R. Kidman on August 20, 1960; the couple has a son Giles and daughter Joanna.
