Linda Niccol
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Niccol, Linda (1957 –) is a fiction writer and scriptwriter, and she has also worked as a copywriter, and in advertising. She was born in Otaki, and attended Epsom Girls Grammar and Wellington Polytechnic. Her first collection of short stories, The Geometry of Desire, was published in 2005. This was followed by her second book, The Temperature of Water, in 2008.
Bob Harvey writes about her first collection on the New Zealand Book Month blog, saying ‘Anyone reading the title of this book and looking for something a bit sexy will be disappointed. But they shouldn’t be. The Geometry of Desire by Linda Niccol…is a collection of short stories about relationships and is at times poignantly and exquisitely tender.’ He goes on to say, ‘At other times it is clever and funny. Through her stories I think Niccol is exploring the meaning of love and incredibly enough she, through her well thought out and very ‘normal’ characters, actually comes up with some answers.
Steve Walker writes about her second collection in the NZ Listener, ‘Linda Niccol’s second collection of short stories, The temperature of Water, looks at love in many forms - frustrated, re-ignited, thwarted, found or just plain ordinary. Like her first collection, The Geometry of Desire, it is by turns comic, poignant, reflective and didactic. Its predecessor impressed with its sharp handling of dialogue, its sense of a visual dimension and its intelligence, and from those perspectives The Temperature of Water will not disappoint.’
In 2008 she also wrote the screenplay for the film Second-Hand Wedding. Niccol has been placed in distinguished national and international short story competitions, and her fiction has been broadcast on national radio.
Linda Niccol lives on the Kapiti Coast.
