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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 {{Lists of writers by nationality Writers New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... [...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 through ... [...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 Scottish-born 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 Writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Barker
Mary Anne Barker, Lady Barker (29 January 1831 – 6 March 1911), later Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, was an English author. She wrote mainly about life in New Zealand. Biography Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the eldest daughter of Walter Steward, Island Secretary of Jamaica. She was educated in England, and in 1852 married Captain George Robert Barker of the Royal Artillery, with whom she had two children. When Barker was knighted for his leadership at the Siege of Lucknow, Mary Anne became "Lady Barker". Eight months later Barker died. On 21 June 1865, Mary Anne Barker married Frederick Napier Broome. The couple then sailed for New Zealand, leaving her two children in England. The couple's first child was born in Christchurch in February 1866, but died in May. By this time, they had moved to the sheep station ''Steventon'', which Broome had partnered with H. P. Hill to buy. They remained there for three years; they lost more than half their sheep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serie Barford
Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Her poetry collection, ''Tapa Talk'', was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015, and 2021). Her poems and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, among them Mauri Ola, Whetu Moana, Niu Voices, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Dreadlocks, Writing the Pacific, Trout, Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Best New Zealand Poems. ''Sleeping with Stones'' was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W .... She has Samoan, European and Algonquin Indian ancestry. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Barford, Serie New Zealand poets New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ballantyne
David Watt Ballantyne (14 June 1924 – 24 February 1986) was a New Zealand journalist, novelist and short story writer. Ballantyne was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 14 June 1924. After a brief episode in the military and after not completing his medical studies, he began his career as a journalist at the Auckland Star The ''Auckland Star'' was an evening daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, from 24 March 1870 to 16 August 1991. Survived by its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Star'', part of its name endures in ''The Sunday Star-Times'', created in .... In 1948, he published his first novel, ''The Cunninghams'' in the United States. He finished ''Freeman’s Bay'', a novel about Auckland working-class life, in 1950, but it was not accepted by either his American or his New Zealand publisher. Ballantyne married the painter Jean Vivienne Margaret Heise in 1950, with whom he had a son. In 1954 he moved with his family to London, where he continued working as a j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Ballantine
Philippa Ballantine (born 8 August 1971), who also used the pen name Pip Ballantine, is a contemporary New Zealand author of speculative fiction and an avid podcaster. She now lives in Manassas, Virginia, with her husband and collaborator Tee Morris. History Philippa Jane Ballantine was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School and went on to graduate from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Political Science. She also holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library Studies from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. In 2006 Ballantine became the first New Zealand author to podcast her novel. Ballantine's first Book of the Order, ''Geist'', was published by Ace Books in 2010, followed by ''Spectyr'', ''Wrayth'', and the final in the series ''Harbinger''. She is also the co-author with her husband Tee Morris of the "Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences" novels. The first, ''Phoenix Rising'', came out in 2011 and won an Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist who became known for his ''Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero'' (the longest running cartoon in ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' magazine), ''Bruce the Barbarian'', ''All the King's Comrades'' (also in ''Punch'') and the long-running ''Footrot Flats'' comics, comic series. In the 2002 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, Ball was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a cartoonist. Life and work Ball was born in Feilding in 1939; his father was All Black rugby player Nelson Ball. He grew up in New Zealand before spending some years in Australia and South Africa, where he attended Parktown Boys' High School and finished his education. He played for the Junior All Blacks in 1959 as a "first five-eighth" (number 10). As a young man he worked for the The Dominion Post (Wellington), ''Dominion'' newspaper in Wellington and the ''Manawat ... [...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 Whakatane and Nelson, and 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 is living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence in 2016. 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) and ''funkhaus'' (2020). As a musician she has recorded albums of original music. Her first album, ''puāwai'' (2004), was a finalist for the New Zealand Music Aw ... [...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 y ... [...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. Background Avia was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her father is Samoan and her mother is Palagi (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. Career Avia's poetry explores Pasifika and cross-cultural themes, as well as the borders between traditional and contemporary life, and between place and the self. Avia has toured both nationally and internationally performing her solo show ''Wild Dogs Under My Skirt'' which premiered at the 2002 Dunedin Fringe Festival. She is a creative writing lecturer at the Manukau Institute of Technology. ''Wild Dogs Under My Skirt'' was presented by Auckland Arts Festival and Silo Theatre for Auckland Arts Festival in 2019 with an ensemble cast rather than as a solo. It went on to tour New Zealand receiving critical acclaim i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
