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Esther Glen Medal
The Esther Glen Award, or LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award, is the longest running and the most renowned literary prize for New Zealand children's literature. History The prize was called into being in memory of New Zealand writer Alice Esther Glen (1881–1940) who was the first notable author of children's books there. It has been awarded yearly (with some exceptions) since 1945 by the ''Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa'' ( LIANZA) to a New Zealand author "for the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for junior fiction". Laureates * 1945: Stella Morice, ''The Book of Wiremu'' * 1947: A. W. Reed, ''Myths and Legends of Maoriland'' * 1950: Joan Smith, ''The Adventures of Nimble, Rumble and Tumble'' * 1959: Maurice Duggan, ''Falter Tom and the Water Boy'' * 1964: Lesley C. Powell, ''Turi, The Story of a Little Boy'' * 1970: Margaret Mahy, ''A Lion in the Meadow'' * 1973: Margaret Mahy, ''The First Margaret Mahy Story B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi (born 1959) is a New Zealand novelist, children's writer and short story writer. Her early work was published under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. Early life De Goldi was born in Christchurch in 1959. She is of mixed Irish and Italian ancestry. Career De Goldi published her first collection of short stories ''like you, really'' (1994) under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. De Goldi has been a full-time writer since 1997, and contributes to the New Zealand literature sector as a creative writing teacher (1999-2006 at the IIML), a book-related broadcaster and radio commentator, a participant of Writers in Schools, and a chair for literary festivals in New Zealand and internationally. De Goldi is an Arts Foundation Laureate (named in 2001). De Goldi received the 2010 Michael King Fellowship to research and write an article about Susan Price. De Goldi has received both the 2011 Margaret Mahy Award and the 2011 Young Readers' Award Corine Literature Prize, She is known fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Roxborogh
Tania Kelly Roxborogh (born 1 September 1965) is a New Zealand author who currently lives in Lincoln, Canterbury. She is the author of over 30 books, including ''Third Degree'', ''Twenty Minute Shakespeare'', and ''Fat Like Me'' and ''The Banquo's Son Trilogy''. She also teaches English at the local high school. In 2021, her novel ''Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea'' won the supreme award, the Margaret Mahy Book of the year. Biography Early life Tania Roxborogh was born in Christchurch. When she was three years old, her alcoholic father left home and she moved to Te Puke with her mother. In 1972, at the age of seven, her mother met another man, who had four sons and a housekeeper who also had four children. They all moved in together and moved around Northland for the next few years. They finally settled in Titoki, west of Whangarei where Tania and her siblings attended Mangakahia Area School. However, in 1977, the family once again moved. By 1980, Tania had live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonie Agnew
Leonie Agnew is a children's writer and teacher. Several of her books have been shortlisted for or won awards, including the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2010, the Junior Fiction Section, the Children's Choice Junior Fiction section and the Best First Book Award of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2012, the Master of the Inkpot Competition in 2015 and the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction in the New Zealand Book Awards for Chidlren and Young Adults 2022. She has also been the recipient of a writing residency at the University of Otago. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Biography Leonie Agnew was born in Auckland and grew up in Howick. She attended Baradene College for four years, then Howick College for a year. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching, has worked as an advertising copywriter and is now a writer, primary school teacher and creative writing tutor, living in Auckland. She lists some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Cowley
Cassia Joy Cowley (; born 7 August 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Cowley started out writing novels for adults, and her first book, ''Nest in a Falling Tree'' (1967), was adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl. It became the 1971 film ''The Night Digger''. Following its success in the United States, Cowley wrote several other novels, including ''Man of Straw'' (1972), ''Of Men and Angels'' (1972), ''The Mandrake Root'' (1975), and ''The Growing Season'' (1979). Typical themes of these works were marital infidelity, mental illness, and death, as experienced within families. Cowley has also published several collections of short stories, including ''Two of a Kind'' (1984) and ''Heart Attack and Other Stories'' (1985). Today she is best known for children's books, such as ''The Silent One'' (1981), which was made into a 1985 film. Others include ''Bow Down Shadrach'' (1991) and its seque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael King
Rachael King (born 1970) is an author from New Zealand. Background King was born in 1970, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2001 she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. King is a bass guitarist and has played with several bands on the Flying Nun label. King's father is the historian and author Michael King and her brother is filmmaker Jonathan King. Works King has published three novels: * ''The Sound of Butterflies'' (2006, Random House) * ''Magpie Hall'' (2009, Random House) * ''Red Rocks'' (2012, Random House), novel for children Short stories by King have been published in several anthologies including in ''Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers'' and ''Creative Juices''. In 2013, King became Literary Director of the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival. She was a judge for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2017. Awards In 2007, King's first novel ''The Sound of Butte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Else
Barbara Helen Else (born 1947), also known as Barbara Neale, is a New Zealand writer, editor, and playwright. She has written novels for adults and children, plays, short stories and articles and has edited anthologies of children's stories. She has received a number of awards and fellowships including the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, the Margaret Mahy Award, Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and the Victoria University of Wellington's Writer's Fellowship. Biography Barbara Else (also published as Barbara Neale) was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1947. She lived in Riverton, New Zealand, Riverton until age two, when her family moved to Wellington. She has lived in various parts of New Zealand, including Auckland, Oamaru, Christchurch and Dunedin as well as in San Diego, California. She graduated with an MA from University of Otago, Otago University in 1969 and has worked as a university tutor, an editor and a freelance writer. She has served on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleur Beale
Fleur Una Maude Beale (née Corney, born 22 February 1945) is a New Zealand teenage fiction writer, best known for her novel ''I Am Not Esther'', which has been published worldwide.'Fleur Beale', ''New Zealand Book Council'' Retrieved 2 March 2005 Biography Beale was one of six children of a dairy farmer, Cedric Corney, and of a teacher and author, Estelle Corney (née Cook). She was born in Inglewood, , New Zealand, on the farm where her father was born. Beale grew up in the town and attended[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Hager
Mandy or Mandie may refer to: People * Mandy (name), a female given name and nickname * Iván Mándy (1918-1995), Hungarian writer * Mark Mandy (born 1972), Irish retired high jumper * Philip Mandie (born 1942), a former judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia Books * the title character of ''Handy Mandy in Oz'' (1937), in the "Oz Books" series by Frank Baum and his successors * ''Mandy'' (comic), a British girls' comic published 1967–1991 * '' Mandie'', a series of children's books written by Lois Gladys Leppard * ''Mandy'', a four-part children's book written by Julie Andrews, originally published in 1971 under the pen name Kim Edwards Music * ''Mandy'' (album), British singer Mandy Smith's 1988 debut album * "Mandy" (Irving Berlin song), a 1919 song written by Irving Berlin * "Brandy" (Scott English song), a 1971 song renamed to "Mandy" and made popular by Barry Manilow and Westlife * "Mandy" (Jonas Brothers song), a 2005 song by the American boy band Jonas B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Fiona Knox (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is ''The Vintner's Luck'' (1998), which won several awards, has been published in ten languages, and was made into The Vintner's Luck (film), a film of the same name by Niki Caro in 2009. Knox is also known for her young adult literary fantasy series, ''Dreamhunter Duet''. Her most recent novels are ''Mortal Fire'' and ''Wake'', both published in 2013, and ''The Absolute Book'', published in 2019. Early life Knox was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She and her two sisters were raised by atheist parents in a household where religion was often debated. They spent their childhood living in various small suburbs of Wellington, including Pomare, Lower Hutt, Pomare, Wadestown, New Zealand, Wadestown, Waikanae and Paremata. She went to high school at Tawa College, and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Beckett
Bernard Beckett (born 13 October 1967) is a New Zealand writer of fiction for young adults. His work includes novels and plays. Beckett has taught Drama, Mathematics and English at several high schools in the Wellington Region, and is currently teaching at Hutt Valley High School in Lower Hutt. Selected works * ''Lester'' (novel, 1999) * ''Red Cliff'' (novel, 2000) * ''Jolt'' (novel, 2001) * ''No Alarms'' (novel, 2002) * ''3 Plays: Puck, Plan 10 From Outer Space, The End Of The World As We Know It'' 2003 * ''Home Boys'' (novel, 2003) * ''Malcolm and Juliet'' (novel, 2004) * ''Deep Fried'' - with Clare Knighton (novel, 2005) * ''Genesis'' (novel, 2006) * ''Falling for Science'' (non-fiction, 2007) * ''Limbo'' (film, 2008) * ''Loaded'' (film, 2009) *''Last Dance'' (film, 2011) *''Lament'' (film, 2012) Awards * 2005: Esther Glen Award at the LIANZA Children's Book Awards, for ''Malcolm and Juliet''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Catran
Ken Catran (born 16 May 1944) is a children's novelist and television screenwriter from New Zealand. Career Catran is the author of many teen novels, including ''Taken at the Flood'', ''Voyage with Jason'', ''Doomfire on Venus'', ''Space Wolf'', ''Jacko Moran: Sniper'', ''Talking to Blue'' and its sequels ''Blue Murder'' and ''Blue Blood''. He also contributed to the television dramas ''Shortland Street'' and '' Close to Home''. Around 1993, he moved away from screenwriting to focus more on writing novels. Since then, he has become a prolific and varied writer within the New Zealand literary community. Ken's television credits include soap operas (''Radio Waves'', '' Close to Home'') as well as episodes in other TV dramas such as ''Mortimer's Patch''. He also penned '' Under the Mountain'', an 8-episode treatment of the Maurice Gee novel, and wrote the critically well-received ''Hanlon'', a biographical law drama. The opening episode treating sympathetically the Minnie Dean case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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