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NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award
The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for mid-career fiction or poetry writers. It was named after New Zealand writer Janet Frame, who died in 2004, and funded by a gift from the Janet Frame Literary Trust. It was awarded biennially from 2008 to 2016. History The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction. Janet Frame was a member of the writers’ organisation that is now called the New Zealand Society of Authors, or NZSA (then named the NZ PEN Centre) and had been greatly helped by being awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award in 1951 for her first book, ''The Lagoon and other stories''. This award was made possible by a bequest to the NZ PEN Centre from Hubert Church's widow in 1945. A few years after Janet Frame's death, in August 2007, the Janet Frame Literary Trust gave the NZSA a gift to fund an award in her name, to be given to an author of literary or imaginative fiction, or poetry. The award was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand,The Order of New Zealand Honours List New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Society Of Authors
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It was founded as the New Zealand PEN Centre (Poets, Essays and Novelists) in 1934. It broadened its scope and became the New Zealand Society of Authors in 1994, under the presidency of writer Philip Temple. There are eight branches covering all regions of New Zealand. Branches were established in Wellington and Auckland first, and later in Otago and Canterbury. The Otago Branch was established in Dunedin in 1982 under the leadership of writer and artist Christodoulos Moisa, who had moved to there from Auckland. He was helped by poet Graham Lindsay. Moisa had been nominated for membership by ''Auckland Star'' editor and writer David Ballantyne and Prof. Bernard Brown before he left Auckland to live in Dunedin. The branch used to meet once a month in the staffroom of the Hocken Building, where Moisa worked as an artist on the Ban Nadi Archeological project of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Church
Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (13 June 1857 – 8 April 1932) was an Australian poet. Church was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Hubert Day Church and his wife Mary Ann. His father, a barrister, came from Somerset and was a descendant of the family of John Hampden. Hubert Church was taken to England when eight years old, and was educated at Guildford and Felstead. Around 16 years of age Church went to New Zealand and later joined the treasury department at Wellington, New Zealand. In 1902 Church's first volume of verse, ''The West Wind'', was published at Sydney, this was followed by ''Poems'' (1904), published at Wellington, New Zealand, and ''Egmont'', at Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ... in 1908. In 1911 he retired from the New Zealand public se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Encyclopedia Of New Zealand
''Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand'' is an online encyclopedia established in 2001 by the New Zealand Government's Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The web-based content was developed in stages over the next several years; the first sections were published in 2005, and the last in 2014 marking its completion. ''Te Ara'' means "the pathway" in the Māori language, and contains over three million words in articles from over 450 authors. Over 30,000 images and video clips are included from thousands of contributors. History New Zealand's first recognisable encyclopedia was ''The Cyclopedia of New Zealand'', a commercial venture compiled and published between 1897 and 1908 in which businesses or people usually paid to be covered. In 1966 the New Zealand Government published ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'', its first official encyclopedia, in three volumes. Although now superseded by ''Te Ara'', its historical importance led to its inclusion as a separate digital reso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Neale
Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria University of Wellington and was awarded an MA and PhD from University College London. Following her graduation she returned to New Zealand to work for Longacre Press, working for ten years as editor then senior editor. Works Neale's first work was published in 1998 and her writing has been featured extensively in magazines, newspapers and journals, and several anthologies. Novels * ''Night Swimming'' (Penguin Random House, 1998) * ''Little Moon'' (Random House, 2001) * ''Double Take'' (Random House, 2003) * ''Relative Strangers'' (Vintage, 2006) * ''Fosterling'' (Vintage, 2011) * ''Billy Bird'' (Penguin Random House, 2016) Poetry * ''Sleeve-Notes'' (Random House, 1999) * ''How to Make a Million'' (Godwit, 2002) * ''Spark'' (Steele Roberts, 2008) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Jones (writer)
Tim Jones (born 15 June 1959) is a New Zealand writer and poet. Born in Cleethorpes, near Grimsby, England, Jones moved to Southland, New Zealand at a young age. He was educated at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and has lived in Wellington since 1993. Biography Jones has published six books: a novel, two short story collections, and three collections of poetry. In addition, he is the co-editor, with Mark Pirie, of an anthology of New Zealand science fiction poetry. Writing career Jones has long been associated with the New Zealand science fiction fan community and also with New Zealand's environmental movement. Both themes are present in his books, though neither dominates his writing. Jones's work was nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel Award for poetry in 2004, and ''Anarya's Secret'' was nominated for Best Novel in the 2008 awards. The anthology ''Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry From New Zealand'', of which Jones was a co-editor, won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Brown
Diane Edith Brown (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Brown was born in 1951. She is based in Dunedin. Career Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including: * ''Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland'' (1997, Tandem Press), poetry * ''Learning to Lie Together'' (2004, Godwit), poetry * ''If The Tongue Fits'' (1999, Tandem Press), novel * ''Eight Stages of Grace'' (2002, Random House), novel She is also the author of the memoirs ''Liars and Lovers'' (2004), ''Here Comes Another Vital Moment'' (2006), and ''Taking My Mother To The Opera'' (2015). Poetry by Brown has appeared in literary journals including ''Landfall'', '' Poetry New Zealand,'' and ''New Zealand Listener''. Brown currently runs the creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Awards In the 2013 New Year Honours, Brown was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in recognition of services as a writer and educator. ''Before The Divorce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago Daily Times
The ''Otago Daily Times'' (''ODT'') is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a combined print and digital annual audience of 304,000. Founded in 1861 it is New Zealand's oldest surviving daily newspaper – Christchurch's '' The Press'', six months older, was a weekly paper until March 1863. Its motto is "Optima Durant" or "Quality Endures". History Founding The ''ODT'' was founded by William H. Cutten and Julius (later Sir Julius) Vogel during the boom following the discovery of gold at the Tuapeka, the first of the Otago goldrushes. Co-founder Vogel had learnt the newspaper trade while working as a goldfields correspondent, journalist and editor in Victoria prior to immigrating to New Zealand. Vogel had arrived in Otago in early October 1861 at the age of 26 and soon took up employment at the ''Otago Colonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life and career Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian. Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was published in 1975, when she was in her mid-thirties. She has since published over fifteen poetry collections, as well as several short story collections and novels. Her work has won numerous notable awards, including three times the top poetry award at the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2002, she was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. Harry Ricketts, writing for ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', describes her strength as being "the short poem, usually but not always unrhymed, witty, stylish and intellectually curious". He also notes that her poetry tends to feature figures from literature and legends, as well as Catholicism. Awards *1987 Scholarship in Letters *1989 Lilian Ida Smith Award (non-fiction) *1990 New Zealand Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Fearnley
Laurence Fearnley (born 1963) is a New Zealand short-story writer, novelist and non-fiction writer. Several of her books have been shortlisted for or have won awards, both in New Zealand and overseas, including ''The Hut Builder'', which won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. She has also been the recipient of a number of writing awards and residencies including the Robert Burns Fellowship, the Janet Frame Memorial Award and the Artists to Antarctica Programme. Biography Laurence Fearnley was born in 1963. Her parents emigrated from England to New Zealand. She grew up in Christchurch, travelled to Europe and later lived in Wellington where she worked as a curator in art galleries and museums. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing (2012) from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. For her thesis, she looked at accounts of the first attempts to climb Aoraki/Mount Cook. Her books, including her trilogy ''Butle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Zealand Literary Awards ...
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include: See also *New Zealand literature References {{reflist Literary awards 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] |
