Charlotte Grimshaw

Guest writer

Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of 10 novels. Her latest book Mazarine was published in March 2018. She has won awards for best book of the year, best reviewer of the year, and best columnist of the year. Charlotte was born in Auckland in 1975.

The cast of The Bad Seed and the cover of the novel The Bad Seed.

My imagined reality turned real: Charlotte Grimshaw on making The Bad Seed

This Sunday, two Charlotte Grimshaw novels come to the screen in the form of The Bad Seed. She writes about the experience of having her work adapted for TV.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 11th April, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgård (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

Charlotte Grimshaw on the epic achievement of Karl Ove Knausgaard

Book of the Week: Charlotte Grimshaw reviews the titanic, monstrous, final volume of the My Struggle series by the one and only Karl Ove Knausgaard.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 6th December, 2018

A portrait of Wellington’s literati, minus the art

A portrait of Wellington’s literati, minus the art

Charlotte Grimshaw endures a novel full of 'knowing and coy references to real people' in New Zealand literature.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 23rd October, 2018

The new 9/11: Charlotte Grimshaw in Trump’s Crazytown

The new 9/11: Charlotte Grimshaw in Trump’s Crazytown

Our travelling US correspondent Charlotte Grimshaw reports on the latest weird and turbulent week in Donald Trump's presidency.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 11th September, 2018

Paris Hilton gives a tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall on December 11, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)

In search of fake news: the diary of Charlotte Grimshaw

Charlotte Grimshaw writes about the forces behind her new novel: "Trump, Putin, Kim Jong-un. The posturing. The bizarre hairstyles, the violence and cruelty. The narcissism..."

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 4th April, 2018

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Book of the Week: The sweet, lovable, venomous and malevolent Sylvia Plath

Charlotte Grimshaw reviews a new collection of letters by Sylvia Plath - most written to her mother who she both loved and loathed.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 1st February, 2018

Book of the week: Charlotte Grimshaw on a brilliant portrait of small, fat Katherine Mansfield

Book of the week: Charlotte Grimshaw on a brilliant portrait of small, fat Katherine Mansfield

Charlotte Grimshaw reviews A Strange Beautiful Excitement, Redmer Yska's superb telling of Katherine Mansfield's childhood and teenage years in Wellington.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 31st August, 2017

Charlotte Grimshaw on the man who investigated Nazi drug use

Charlotte Grimshaw on the man who investigated Nazi drug use

Charlotte Grimshaw reviews a new study which claims methamphetamine abuse in the Nazi regime.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 7th February, 2017

Shortlisted Canadian author Rachel Cusk poses at a photocall for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction award ceremony in London on June 3, 2015.
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A writer for the selfie age: Charlotte Grimshaw on the new novel by ‘brittle little narcissist’ Rachel Cusk

Charlotte Grimshaw on the selfie novels by acclaimed English writer Rachel Cusk.

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 26th October, 2016

Book of the Week: Charlotte Grimshaw on volume five of the epic self-portrait by Norwegian genius Karl Ove Knausgaard

Book of the Week: Charlotte Grimshaw on volume five of the epic self-portrait by Norwegian genius Karl Ove Knausgaard

The two biggest literary sensations of the past few years have been writers from Europe - Italy's Elena Ferrnate, and the remarkable Norwegian solipsist, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Charlotte Grimshaw admires his latest novel as "his most intense outing yet".

By Charlotte Grimshaw | 15th April, 2016