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Symon is a full-time mother and writer, and also produces and hosts a monthly books-focused radio show 'Write On' on Toroa Radio (It airs live on the second
Wednesday of each month on Hills AM Community Radio 1575 kHz from noon to 1:00pm), serves as the Chair of the Otago Southland Branch of the
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was 4 ½ years from go to whoa. This was very part time fitting in snippets of writing around babies and the associated demands of feeding, play, dealing with messes of all origins, household running and eyeballs-falling-out-of-head tiredness.”
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In 2018 Symon completed a PhD at the
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until 1999. She started a family in 2000, and began writing full-time while looking after her children in Hawke's Bay.
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led her to a love of all things
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series of children's books – before she moved on to "camping out at the library" and a steady diet of
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was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award. Symon's fifth novel, a standalone thriller called
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in August 2008. She has had some international success, with the German translation of
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Overkill – Thoughts from the mind of a serial crime writer – Official Vanda Symon blog
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