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Marilyn Duckworth OBE (born 10 November 1935 in New Zealand) is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published sixteen novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio.

Duckworth was born in Auckland, but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in England. Her father was Cyril John Adcock, her sister is the poet Fleur Adcock. Duckworth’s first novel A Gap in the Spectrum was published when she was twenty-three.

• A Gap in the Spectrum (1959)
• The Matchbox House (1960)
• A Barbarous Tongue (1963)
• Over the Fence Is Out (1969).
• Other Lovers' Children: Poems 1958–74 (1975)
• Disorderly Conduct (1984)
• Married Alive (1985)
• Rest for the Wicked (1986)
• Pulling Faces (1987)
• A Message from Harpo (1989)
• Explosions in the Sun (1989), a volume of short stories
• Unlawful Entry (1992)
• Seeing Red (1993)
• Fooling (1994), a novella
• Leather Wings (1995)
• Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About Their Sisters (1996 ) (editor)
• Studmuffin (1997)
• Camping on the Faultline (2000), a memoir
• Swallowing Diamonds (2003)
• Playing Friends (2007)

• New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement for A Barbarous Tongue (1963)
• New Zealand Book Award:Fiction for Disorderly Conduct (1985)
• Wattie Book of the Year Award (shortlisted) for Disorderly Conduct (1985)
• OBE for services to literature (1987)^[1]
• Commonwealth Writers' Prize (shortlisted) for Leather Wings (1996)
• President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors NZSA/PEN NZ (2011-2012)

• Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters (1961 and 1972)
• Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, Menton, France (1980)
• Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship, USA (1987)
• Australia New Zealand Writers' Exchange Fellowship (1989)
• Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship (1990)
• Arts Council NZ Scholarship in Letters (1993)
• Hawthornden Writing fellowship, Scotland (1994)
• Sargeson Writing Fellowship, Auckland (1995)
• Auckland University Literary Fellowship (1996)
• Ucross Foundation Residency, Wyoming USA (1997)
• Millay Arts Centre Residency, New York State USA (2001)

• Feet First (Radio New Zealand) (1981)
• Home to Mother (Radio New Zealand) (1976)
• A Gap in the Spectrum (Radio New Zealand) (1972)
• A Barbarous Tongue (Radio New Zealand) (adaptation of own work for Radio New Zealand) (1973)

• Close to Home scripts (5 for Television One in 1975–1976.

• The New Zealand Book Council
• The New Zealand Literature File

• List of New Zealand literary figures

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