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New Zealand Writers ...
Writers who have contributed to New Zealand literature include: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y See also *New Zealand literature * List of New Zealand poets * List of New Zealand women writers Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:New Zealand writers Writers New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Literature
New Zealand literature is literature, both oral and written, produced by the people of New Zealand. It often deals with New Zealand themes, people or places, is written predominantly in New Zealand English, and features Māori culture and the use of the Māori language. Before the arrival and settlement of Europeans in New Zealand in the 19th century, Māori culture had a strong oral tradition. Early European settlers wrote about their experiences travelling and exploring New Zealand. The concept of a "New Zealand literature", as distinct from English literature, did not originate until the 20th century, when authors began exploring themes of landscape, isolation, and the emerging New Zealand national identity.. Māori writers became more prominent in the latter half of the 20th century, and Māori language and culture have become an increasingly important part of New Zealand literature. New Zealand literature has developed into a major part of modern New Zealand culture throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Allen
Pamela Kay Allen (née Griffiths; born 3 April 1934) is a New Zealand children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 50 picture books since 1980. Sales of her books have exceeded five million copies. Early life and family Born in the Auckland suburb of Devonport in 1934 to Esma Eileen (née Griffith) and William Ewart Griffiths, Allen studied at St Cuthbert's College, then the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, from where she graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1955. She then worked as a secondary school art teacher. She married sculptor Jim Allen in 1964. They moved to Sydney in about 1977, and after about 30 years returned to live in Auckland, New Zealand. Writing career Allen published her first book, ''Mr Archimedes' Bath'', in 1980. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 30 picture books for children. She has won or been shortlisted for many awards as both a writer and illustrator. She won the Children's Book Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Alice Baker
Louisa Alice Baker (pen names, Mrs. Louis Alien Baker, Louisa Alien Baker, and Alien; 13 January 1856 – 22 March 1926) was an English-born New Zealand journalist and novelist. Early years Louisa Alice Dawson was born in Aston, Warwickshire, England, on 13 January 1856. At the age of 7, her family immigrated to Lyttelton, New Zealand. Career In 1874, she married John William Baker and they had two children, John William Walter Baker and Ethel Elizabeth Baker She used several pen names for the different aspects for her career. When writing for the ''Otago Witness'' writing their children's column she was known as 'Dot' and used the name 'Alice when writing for the ''Otago Witness'' women's column. She continued to write for the ''Witness'' after she moved to England in 1894. After her move to England, Louisa wrote novels under the name 'Alien' and continued to write popular articles until her death in 1926 as a result of burns from a stove fire in her home. In 1886 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster. Biography Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 and grew up in Whakatāne and Nelson. She descends from the Ngāi Tahu tribe in the South Island of New Zealand, and from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa in the North Island. She also has English and German (Bavarian) heritage. Baker is queer and takatāpui. she is living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence in 2016. She was chosen as the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow for 2024. Baker holds an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. Career Baker's writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. Her works include the poetry collections ''mātuhi , needle'' (2004), ''kōiwi kōiwi , bone bone'' (2010), ''waha , mouth'' (2014) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Baker
Denis Baker (born 1966) is a New Zealand novelist and short story writer. Life and career Baker was born in 1966 and grew up in Auckland. He left New Zealand in 1987 and moved to London, where he attended Birkbeck College at the University of London until 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. he is based in Switzerland. In 1998 he was the runner-up in the ''Sunday Star-Times'' short story competition, and in 1999 he was the runner up in the ''Takahe'' short story competition. In 2000 his collection of short stories, ''Floating Lines'', was published. A review by Lydia Wevers described it as featuring male narrators who "express their emotions and are very aware of the games men play, the damage they do, the wounds they sustain"; she concluded that "realist masculine fiction in this country is in good shape". In 2002 he received a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. His first novel, ''On a Distant Island'', was published the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Baier
Annette Claire Baier (née Stoop; 11 October 1929 – 2 November 2012) was a New Zealand philosopher and Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology. She was well known also for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars. Biography Baier earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Otago in her native Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1952 she went to Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned her PhD and met fellow philosophers Philippa Foot and G.E.M. Anscombe. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon University. She retired to Dunedin. She was former President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, an office reserved for the elite of her profession. Baier received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tusiata Avia
Donna Tusiata Avia (born 1966) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. She has been recognised for her work through receiving a 2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2020 Queen's Birthday Honour and in 2021 her collection ''The Savage Coloniser'' won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ''The Savage Coloniser'' and her previous work ''Wild Dogs Under My Skirt'' have been turned into live stage plays presented in a number of locations. Background Avia was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her father is Samoan and her mother is New Zealand European. Avia graduated from the University of Canterbury and in 2002 received an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Avia currently resides in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui. Career Avia's poetry explores Polynesian culture, Pasifika and cross-cultural themes, as well as the borders between traditional and contemporary life, and betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton Warner (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. As an educator she developed and applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching of reading and writing, and vocabulary techniques, still used today. Early life Ashton-Warner was born on 17 December 1908 in Stratford, New Zealand, one of ten children born to Francis Ashton Warner, a bookkeeper, and Margaret Maxwell, a schoolteacher 14 years his junior. When Francis's health deteriorated, Margaret became the sole breadwinner, thus needing to take the younger children to school with her to sit in her classroom while she taught. The older children were left at home with their mostly bedridden father. Career Ashton-Warner chose teaching as a career partly because it was familiar to her from childhood days spent in her mother’s classroom, and because it gave her a chance to teach h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michalia Arathimos
Michalia Arathimos is a Greek–New Zealand writer. She has held several writers' residencies in New Zealand, and received several awards for her short stories. Her debut novel, ''Aukati'', was published in 2017. Life and career Arathimos was born in Wellington. Her mother is Greek and her father is a New Zealander. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, supervised by Damien Wilkins and Mark Williams. After finishing her PhD, she and her partner moved to Western Australia for a year and subsequently to Melbourne, where she worked as a book reviewer for ''Overland''. In 2016 she came second in the ''Landfall'' Essay Competition. In 2016 she won the ''Sunday Star-Times'' short story competition (open category) with her short story "The Beauty of Mrs Lim". The main character in her story was inspired by her grandmother, who immigrated to New Zealand in the 1950s. She has twice been shortlisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Anthony (writer)
Frank Sheldon Anthony (13 December 1891 – 13 January 1927) was a New Zealand seaman, farmer, short-story writer and novelist. He was born in Matawhero, East Coast, New Zealand, on 13 December 1891. References External links * 1891 births 1927 deaths 20th-century New Zealand farmers 20th-century New Zealand novelists New Zealand sailors 20th-century New Zealand short story writers {{NewZealand-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Andrews
Isabella Smith Andrews (; 2 November 1905 – 19 June 1990), known professionally as Isobel Andrews, was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, short-story writer and poet. She wrote over sixty plays, many of which were published, and was associated with the New Zealand branch of the British Drama League. She won the League's annual playwrighting competition four times. Her plays, particularly ''The Willing Horse'', have continued to be performed into the 21st century. Early life and marriage Andrews was born in Glasgow on 2 November 1905. Her parents were Jeanie Scott and James Young, a mercantile clerk. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1911, living first in Bulls and then in Wellington, where she attended Wellington Girls College. On 19 December 1932 she married Ernest Stanhope Andrews, a public servant, who became the founding director of New Zealand's National Film Unit in 1941. Early writing career Andrews was a founding member of the New Zealand Women Writers' and Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Anderson
Amy Mona Anderson (nḗe Holland; 11 March 1909 – 3 May 2004) was a New Zealand writer. She is best known for her first book, ''A River Rules My Life'', published in 1963. In ''Pacific Affairs'' in 1963–64, American J. B. Condliffe described it as "an immediate best-seller in New Zealand", while in 2017 a Christchurch City librarian wrote that its reissue was "a cornerstone of New Zealand back country life". Anderson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1980 New Year Honours, for services to literature. Early life Anderson was born Amy Mona Holland in New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand on the 11 March 1909. She was often known by her father's last name, Tarling, instead of her mother's. Her mother was Alice Maud Holland and her father, William Tarling, worked as a potter. She attended South Malvern Primary School and received her secondary education through private tutoring. She displayed a strong interest in writing from a young age. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
