Fiona Sussman Collection

Former family doctor, Fiona Sussman hung up her stethoscope in 2003 to pursue another long-held dream, to write. Published internationally, she is the author of four novels and numerous short stories. Her novel The-?Last Time We Spoke won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2017 and was shortlisted for the NZ Heritage Prize in 2016. An early draft won the Kobo/NZ Society of Authors Publishing Prize. Her novel Addressed to Greta launched Bateman Books??? fiction list and went on to win the NZ-?Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction in 2021. Fiona???s short stories have also received critical acclaim, including ???Mad Men???, which won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award in 2018, and ???A Breath, A Bunk, A Land, A Sky???, which was shortlisted from over five thousand entries for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2020.