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Burns Fellowship, University Of Otago
The Robert Burns Fellowship is a New Zealand literary residency. Established in 1958 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Robert Burns, it is often claimed to be New Zealand's premier literary residency. The list of past fellows includes many of New Zealand's most notable 20th and 21st century writers. Overview and history The fellowship was established in 1958 by an anonymous group of citizens of Dunedin, including notably Charles Brasch and his cousins the de Beers. Its purpose is "to encourage and promote imaginative New Zealand literature, liberally interpreted to include writers of genres such as literary biography, autobiography and literary criticism". It marked 200 years since the birth of Robert Burns, and also the service provided by the Burns family to the development of the Otago region, including Thomas Burns who was a nephew of the poet. It was the first literary fellowship in New Zealand. Michael King, who received the fellowship in 1998, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual , in biology
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Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook ** Literary annual * Annual plant * Annual report * Annual giving * Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco * Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle A circannual cycle is a biological process that occurs in living creatures over the period of approximately one year. This cycle was first discovered by Ebo Gwinner and Canadian biologist Ted Pengelley. It is classified as an Infradian rhythm, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Dallas
Ruth Minnie Mumford (29 September 1919 – 18 March 2008), better known by her pen name Ruth Dallas, was a New Zealand poet and children's author. Biography Dallas was born in Invercargill, the daughter of Frank and Minnie Mumford. She became blind in one eye at 15, then spent three years at the Southland Technical College and was engaged at 19. But her fiancé broke off the engagement to serve in Great Britain during World War II. During the war she worked at an army office and as a milk tester. Following the war, in 1946, her first published poem, "Morning Mountains" appeared in ''The Southland Times''. She adopted her maternal grandmother's name, Dallas, as a pen name. Her first book of poetry, ''Country Road and Other Poems'', was published in 1953. In 1954 she moved to Dunedin, where she lived for most of her life. In her autobiography, she explains that during her upbringing no person or milieu would have encouraged her to write poetry: ‘I am at a loss to account for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sewell (poet)
William Seymour (Bill) Sewell (1 December 1951 – 29 January 2003) was a New Zealand poet. He was a Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin in 1981–82. He was a frequent reviewer of books, particularly for the periodical ''New Zealand Books'', to which he was appointed co-editor in 1997. He was also a book editor. He died of cancer in Wellington. He published three collections of poems: ''Solo Flight'' (1982), ''Wheels within Wheels'' (1983) and ''Making the Far Land Glow'' (1986) and also ''A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park'' (1989). His poems have a link to modern German poetry and a political focus e.g. ''The Ballad of Fifty-one'', about the 1951 waterfront dispute and ''Erebus: A Poem'', about the 1979 Erebus disaster. He was born in Athens in 1951 where his parents Rosemary Seymour and William Arthur Sewell were living at the time. His father was a former professor of English at the University of Auckland and later both his parents taught at the University of Waik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Temple
Robert Philip Temple (born 1939 in Yorkshire, England) is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology. Career Temple's early work was non-fiction, describing mountaineering expeditions to New Guinea and New Zealand and includes ''Nawok!'' (1962), ''Castles in the Air: Men and Mountains in New Zealand'' (1969), ''The Sea and the Snow: The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island (1966)'', and ''The World at Their Feet'' (1973). Following this he produced a number of novels - ''The Explorer'' (1975), ''Stations'' (1979), ''Beak of the Moon'' (1981), ''Sam'' (1984), ''Dark of the Moon'' (1993), and ''To Each His Own'' (1999) - and many children's books, among which the most notable are ''The Legend of the Kea'' (1986), '' Kakapo, Parrot of the Night'' (1988), and '' Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron'' (1994). In 1980. Temple held the Robert Burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael A
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I * Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Olds
Peter Olds (born 1944) is a New Zealand poet who was born in Christchurch and lives in Dunedin. He is regarded as being a significant contributor within New Zealand literary circles, in particular, having an influence with younger poets in the 1970s. He has held the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship and was the inaugural winner of the Janet Frame Literary Award. During the 1970s he spent time in the community of Jerusalem with James K Baxter. Selected publications Early work Olds left school at 15, settled in Dunedin in the mid-60s and began writing in 1966, completing a one-act play while he was employed by the Globe Theatre building stage sets. In 1968 he suffered a breakdown, and after spending time in a mental hospital, joined James K. Baxter at the Jerusalem commune, returning to Dunedin in 1971 in order to write his first volume of poetry, ''Lady Moss Revived'' (1972). This was followed by ''V-8 Poems'' (1972), ''The Snow and the Glass Window'' (1973), ''Freew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hall (playwright)
Sir Roger Leighton Hall (born 17 January 1939) is one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights, arguably best known for comedies that carry a vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos. Biography Early years Hall was born in Woodford, Essex, England, and educated at London's University College School from 1952 until 1955, when he embarked on a career in insurance. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1957 and continued to work in insurance, also performing in amateur theatre in the city of Wellington. He continued to act while attending Wellington Teachers’ College and Victoria University of Wellington; fellow actor John Clarke praised his impression of then Prime Minister Keith Holyoake as the template for all others. Hall began writing plays for children while teaching, which included a spell at Berhampore School, Wellington. He became a naturalised New Zealander in 1980. Career Hall began writing for television in the 1960s – over the next four decades his televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keri Hulme
Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 194727 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel ''The Bone People'' won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for their debut novel. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Maori, Celtic, and Norse mythology. Early life Hulme was born on 9 March 1947 in Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand. The daughter of John William Hulme, a carpenter, and Mary Ann Miller, a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her father was a first-generation New Zealander whose parents were from Lancashire, England, and her mother came from Oamaru, of Orkney Scots and Māori descent ( Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe). "Our family comes from diverse people: Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe (South Island Māori iwi); Orkney islanders; Lancashire folk; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hunt (poet)
Samuel Percival Maitland Hunt (born 4 July 1946, Castor Bay, Auckland) is a New Zealand poet, especially known for his public performances of poetry, not only his own poems, but also the poems of many other poets. He has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet. Background Hunt's father, a barrister, was sixty when Hunt was born (his mother was 30). Hunt grew up at Castor Bay on the North Shore of Auckland. He became interested in poetry because of his mother. Hunt loved his unconventional parents and " ... early poems featuring his father remain amongst his best".Paul Miller, "Sam Hunt", in Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pp. 249 and 250. Hunt has an older brother, Jonathan, and they have an older half-brother, Alexander Hunt. Education Hunt was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland which he attended from 1958 to 1963. At St Peter's Hunt chafed under the Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature. He was the first Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories, with ''Pounamu, Pounamu'' (1972), and the first to publish a novel, with ''Tangi'' (1973). After his early works he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he focused on editing an anthology of Māori writing in English. From the late 1980s onwards he wrote prolifically. In his novels, plays, short stories and opera librettos, he examines contemporary Māori culture, legends and history, and the impacts of colonisation in New Zealand. He has said that "Māori culture is the taonga, the treasure vault from which I source my inspiration". His 1987 novel '' The Whale Rider'' is his best-known work, read widely by children and adults both in New Zealand an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hone Tuwhare
Honing (metalworking), Honing is a kind of metalworking. Hone may also refer to: * Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname * Hõne language, spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria * Hône, Italy {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Billing
Graham John Billing (12 January 1936 – 11 December 2001) was a New Zealand novelist, journalist and poet. He was born in Dunedin, and educated at the Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago where his father was professor of economics. He was a newspaper and radio journalist from 1958 to 1977. He had spent four years working on ships, which is reflected in the novel ''The Slipway''. He was information officer for the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme from 1962 to 1964, reflected in his first novel ''Forbush and the Penguins''. He was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship The Robert Burns Fellowship is a New Zealand literary residency. Established in 1958 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations of the birth of Robert Burns, it is often claimed to be New Zealand's premier literary residency. The list of past ... in Dunedin in 1973. The poems in ''Changing Countries'' were written after two years teaching in Australia from 1974 to 1975. An autobiographica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
