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Simon Wilson

Simon Wilson

Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the NZ Herald, where he contributes feature articles, columns and news reports on politics, climate change, social issues, urban design, housing, transport, the arts and other matters. He has been editor of Metro magazine, Auckland editor at The Spinoff, editor of Cuisine and Consumer magazines and chief subeditor of NZ Listener. Simon has won many awards for his work, including reviewer of the year, opinion writer of the year, magazine of the year (for Metro and Cuisine) and two for feature writer of the year. He is the author of HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives (Massey University Press, 2022), editor of The Journal of Urgent Writing vol 2 (MUP, 2017), and author of a novel, The Age of Light (Penguin, 1994). In 2016 he chaired the non-fiction judging panel in the Ockham NZ Book Awards.

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