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rebecca k reilly
Rebecca K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea) was born Rebecca Kay Reilly in the former city of Waitākere on August 16th 1991. In 2010, Waitākere City was merged with the cities of Auckland City, North Shore City, Manukau City, Papakura, Rodney and Franklin to become Auckland. She continues to live there.
She is represented by Martha Perotto-Wills at the Bent Agency, London, and is otherwise not generally contactable.
Greta &
valdin
Greta & Valdin was published in New Zealand by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2021, and went on to be republished in the UK and Commonwealth by Penguin Random House and in North America by Simon and Schuster in 2024.
It has been translated into Spanish, German and Portuguese.
Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing, 2019
Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book of Fiction, 2022
Winner of the Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award, 2022
Shortlisted for the Jan Medlicott Prize for Fiction, 2022
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize, 2024
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
Finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for best Fiction and Debut
A 2024 Book of the Year for TIME, NPR, Harpers Bazaar, Kirkus and others