Question: Are Keri Hulme and Flannery O'Connor from the same country?

Context articles: The Bone People
Judgement Day (short story)
Keri Hulme
Bridgette Allen
Hulme, Staffordshire
Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
William A. Sessions
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
A View of the Woods
Flannery O'Connor

The Bone People (styled by the writer and in some editions as the bone people) is a Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel by New Zealand writer Keri Hulme.
"Judgement Day" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor.
 It was published in 1965 in her short story collection "Everything That Rises Must Converge".
 O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus.
 She died in 1964, just before her final book was published.
 A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work.
 Judgement day contains many similarities to one of O'Connor's earliest short stories, "The Geranium."
Keri Hulme (born 9 March 1947) is a New Zealand writer.
 Her only novel, "The Bone People", won the Booker Prize in 1985.
Bridgette Allen is a New Zealand born jazz singer who has a career going back to the 1960s.
 She has appeared on television in both New Zealand and Australia.
 She also starred in the film "Hooks and Feelers", which was an adaptation of a Keri Hulme story.
Hulme is a hamlet on the outskirts of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, in the English county of Staffordshire.
 Unlike Hulme End and Upper Hulme, Hulme village is situated on the city council owned boundary of Park Hall Country Park.
The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home is a historic house museum in Savannah, Georgia where American author Flannery O'Connor lived during her childhood.
 The home is located at 207 E. Charlton Street on Lafayette Square.
William A. Sessions (August 04, 1928—August 12, 2016) was an American author, biographer and professor emeritus of English at Georgia State University, known for his writings about and relationship with Flannery O'Connor.
 After meeting her when they were both working for the Archdiocese of Atlanta's newspaper, Sessions corresponded with, and frequently visited, O'Connor, and is mentioned in many of her letters as the "absurd" or "breathless" Billy.
 The two corresponded when O'Connor was between the ages of 20 and 22.
 Sessions' articles on O'Connor have appeared in the Washington and Lee University Review, the National Catholic Reporter and Studies in Short Fiction.
 He is also the founding editor of "the Carolina Quarterly" and "Studies in the Literary Imagination".
 Awards Sessions has received include the Nikos Kazantzakis Medal from Greece, as well as an honorary degree from Coastal Carolina University.
 He is also a poet, and his poetry has been published in "The Southern Review", "The Georgia Review", and "The Chattahoochee Review".
 Sessions also discovered one of O'Connor's private journals in her archives; the entries in the journal were published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as "A Prayer Journal" in November 2013.
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.
"A View of the Woods" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor.
 It was completed in the fall of 1956 and was first published in the Fall 1957 issue of "Partisan Review".
 It was later republished in "The Best American Short Stories of 1958", and again in 1965, in O'Connor's short story collection, "Everything That Rises Must Converge".
 O'Connor had first submitted it to "Harper's Bazaar", although she correctly expected that the story was "a little grim" for the Harper's readership and would be rejected.
 A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work; "A View of the Woods" contains numerous references to the Judeo-Christian tradition.
 It explores the ideas of modernism and materialism pitted against salvation.
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist.
 She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
 She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters.
 Her writing also reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
 Her posthumously compiled "Complete Stories" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.