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Jennifer Compton
Jennifer Compton (born 1949) is a New Zealand-born Australian poet and playwright. Biography She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949 and attended Wellington East Girls' College. In the 1970s she emigrated to Sydney, Australia with her husband Matthew O'Sullivan. They now live in Carrum in Melbourne. After attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio, her play ''No Man's Land'' (later Crossfire) jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's ''A Floating World'') in 1974. It was premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney in 1975 and published by Currency Press in 1976. Compton returned from Australia to Wellington for several years at the end of 1975 and in August 1976 appeared in the play 'Fanshen' at Unity Theatre. In October 1976 Compton was awarded a $4000 bursary (for 1977) by the New Zealand Literary Fund. This bursary was awarded by the Literary Fund to enable writers to write full-time. Her stage play ''The Big Picture'' was premiered at the Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes urbanised ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Festival
The Adelaide Festival of Arts, also known as the Adelaide Festival, an arts festival, takes place in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in March each year. Started in 1960, it is a major celebration of the arts and a significant cultural event in Australia. The festival is based chiefly in the city centre and its parklands, with some venues in the inner suburbs (such as the Odeon Theatre, Norwood) or occasionally further afield. The Adelaide Festival Centre and River Torrens usually form the nucleus of the event, and in the 21st century Elder Park has played host to opening ceremonies. It comprises many events, usually including opera, theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, cabaret, literature, visual art and new media. The four-day world-music event, WOMADelaide, and the literary festival, Adelaide Writers' Week, form part of the Festival. The festival originally operated biennially, along with the (initially unofficial) Adelaide Fringe; the Fringe has ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Women Writers
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Australian Writers
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New Zealand Women Writers
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1949 Births
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Kathleen Grattan Award
The Kathleen Grattan Award is one of New Zealand's top poetry awards. It is named after Kathleen Grattan, an Auckland poet, who died in 1990. The award was first made in 2008. History The Kathleen Grattan Award is a prestigious poetry prize for an original collection of poems or a long poem by a New Zealand or Pacific resident or citizen. It is named after Kathleen Grattan, an Auckland poet, journalist and former editor of the '' New Zealand Woman's Weekly''. Her work was published in '' Landfall'' and elsewhere, including ''Premier Poets'', a collection from the World Poetry Society. She was a member of the Titirangi Poets. Kathleen Grattan died in 1990 and her daughter Jocelyn Grattan, who died in 2005, left ''Landfall'' a bequest with which to establish an award in her mother's name. She also left another bequest to fund the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. The inaugural award was made in 2008 and for some years it was given annually, but is now biennial. El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginninderra Press
Ginninderra Press is an Australian independent publisher. Founded in 1996 in Canberra by Stephen Matthews , it takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning "throwing out little rays of light" and from its original location in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2007 it moved to Port Adelaide in South Australia. Ginninderra Press has been described by '' The Canberra Times'' as "versatile and visionary". In 2003 it published ''How Did the Fire Know We Lived Here?: Canberra's Bush Fires January 2003'' to raise funds for the Canberra Bushfire Recovery Appeal. It sponsored two ACT Literary Awards, the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition (2000–2005) and the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition for Children (2000–2006). In the 2021 Australia Day Honours its founder, Stephen Matthews, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to publishing". To celebrate its 20 years of operation Joan Fenney edited ''Rays of light: Ginninderra Press – the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Theatre, Wellington
Unity Theatre was a theatre company in Wellington, New Zealand, founded in 1942 that ran until around 1979. It pre-dated professional theatre in New Zealand, which started in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Different to other theatre societies in the 1940s, Unity's objective was to bring social, moral and political issues to audiences. The early committee was led from 1942 until 1949 by Robert Stead, he was a member of the Communist Party and a carpenter and he also had worked with the London Unity Theatre before he came to New Zealand in 1939. One notable member of Unity Theatre was Nola Millar, who opened up the focus of the company beyond politics. Over the years Unity Theatre had an ongoing search to have a suitable location for their plays to be staged, and presented works at many places in Wellington, including the building 1 Kent Terrace, which is now home to BATS Theatre. Many of the company members from Unity were part of forming both Downstage Theatre and Circa Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
