Congratulations to NZSA member Raymond Huber!
Raymond Huber is an author and freelance editor, with a wealth of experience as a teacher, editor, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has received numerous awards and shortlisting in prestigious Children’s Book Awards, nationally and internationally. He has a story in the Te Papa children’s book Curioseum (2014) and won the McGonagall poetry prize winner in 2005.
At the core of his productivity is Raymond’s ability to merge a love of children’s literature with science. His children’s novels, Sting and Wings, are science-based fantasy; his picture books, Flight of the Honey Bee and Gecko , are published internationally; and Peace Warriors, is a YA book about non-violent resistance. Raymond has also written many educational workbooks, school readers and radio plays.
Raymond lives with author/publisher Penelope Todd on the Otago Peninsula; they have three children and two grandsons.
“I’m very grateful for this Fellowship – what a privilege to be able to devote six months to imagination and writing in a place where people value reading and literature. I’ll be working on a children’s book about trees; celebrating the science of trees and telling the stories of people who loved trees.”
