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List Of New Zealand Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in New Zealand or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U *Makerita Urale (fl. 1990s), playwright, producer and documentary director V * Kathryn van Beek (born 1980/1981), short story writer, playwright, children's writer and illustrator W Y *Sonja Yelich (born 1965), poet See also * List of New Zealand writers * List of New Zealand poets * List of New Zealand women artists * List of New Zealand women photographers This is a list of women photographers who were born in New Zealand or whose works are closely associated with that country: B *Janet Bayly (born 1955), photographer, curator and gallery director *Rhondda Bosworth (born 1944), photographer and ... {{Lists of women writers by nationality - New Zealand women writers, List of Writers, List of New Zealand Writers, women ... [...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] |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. Her ideas for a child-based or organic approach to the teaching of reading and writing, including key vocabulary techniques, have gained currency and are still used and debated internationally today. Early life Sylvia Ashton-Warner was born on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She was the daughter of Francis Ashton Warner, a bookkeeper, and Margaret Maxwell, a schoolteacher 14 years his junior. Ashton-Warner was one of ten children. When her father’s health deteriorated, her mother became the sole bread winner, thus needing to take her younger children to school with her to sit in her classroom while she taught. The older children were left at home with their mostly bedridden father. Career Ashton-Warner chose teaching as a career partly because it was familiar to her from childhood d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Beaglehole
Ann Beaglehole (; born 1948) is a New Zealand writer and historian. In the 1950s, her family emigrated from Hungary to New Zealand as refugees following the Hungarian Revolution. She earned a PhD in history and a master's degree in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington, and has written extensively on the history of immigration to New Zealand, including the history of Jewish immigrants and refugees. In addition to a number of non-fiction history works, she has also written a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a Hungarian Jewish refugee in New Zealand. Life and career Beaglehole was born in Siklós, Hungary, in 1948. Her family left Hungary in 1956 and moved to Wellington, New Zealand, in 1957, when Ann was eight, as refugees following the Hungarian Revolution. Her family and background are Jewish, although she is not religious. During World War II her mother pretended to be non-Jewish and her father had to work as a slave labourer. She has wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Edith Baughan
Blanche Edith Baughan (16 January 1870 – 20 August 1958) was a New Zealand poet, writer, botanist and penal reformer. Biography Early life and education Baughan was born in Putney, Surrey, England, on 16 January 1870, one of six children of John Baughan and Ruth Baughan (née Catterns). Baughan attended Brighton High School for Girls. In 1887 she began her studies at Royal Holloway College; she was one of 15 students who won an entrance scholarship of £50 a year. She studied for a London University degree graduating in 1891 with a BA Class 1 Honours in classics; it was the first First Class Honours degree awarded to Royal Holloway College and Baughan was one of the first women to attend the college. Family Baughan’s mother Ruth was mentally ill and in 1878 Ruth and John divorced after living apart for two years. After the divorce John Baughan moved the family to Brighton but he died in 1880. Ruth lived in several different psychiatric hospitals or with relative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Batistich
Amelia Batistich (née Barbarich; 11 March 1915 – 21 August 2004) was a New Zealand fiction writer of Croatian descent. Life Batistich was born in Dargaville to John Barbarich and Milka Matutinovich, settlers from Dalmatia. Her parents ran a boarding house which attracted new migrants, including labourers heading for Northland's gumfields for work. She was educated by the Sisters of St Joseph and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. The family moved to Auckland when Batistich was 11. Her father worked at a quarry there with Dalmatian stonemasons, and she was thus again surrounded by Dalmatian people. In the 1940s, aged about 44, she began to write poems and stories about her family and community, and the hardships faced by early settlers. These were initially published in '' The Listener'' magazine and the ''New Zealand School Journal'', a magazine for New Zealand school children. She also wrote about other ethnic minorities in New Zealand, such as Chinese in the Otago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Barrowman
Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history. Career Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, ''Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason'', won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category. In 2010, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of ''Maurice Gee''. The book, ''Maurice Gee: Life and Work'' '','' was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship. Personal life Barrowman was born and resides in 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 me .... Published books * ''A Popular Vision: the Arts and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Maria Barraud
Sarah Maria Barraud (c.1823 – 8 March 1895) was a New Zealand homemaker and letter-writer. She was born in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ..., in about 1823. References 1820s births 1895 deaths Burials at Bolton Street Cemetery British emigrants to New Zealand 19th-century New Zealand writers 19th-century New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Barr
Miriam Barr is a New Zealand page and performance poet. She is one of the original members of The Literatti, an Auckland-based performance poetry group started in 2006. Barr became creative director for the group in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in Landfall, Black Mail Press, Tongue in Your Ear, JAAM, De-Formed Paper, Enamel, Live Lines, Debate, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Magazine, Brief, Takahe, and Poetry New Zealand (now Poetry NZ Yearbook). She has self-published two volumes of poetry, ''Tangents'', 2006 (now out of print) and ''Observations from the Poetry Factory'', 2007. Both of these books were released with CDs of Barr's poetry set to music. Her collection, ''Bullet Hole Riddle'' was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in 2014. In 2007 Barr created the free, independent poetry zine, Side Stream, which was distributed by a network of poets from around the world until its demise in 2011. Barr has been one of the coordinators of Poetry Live since 2006. Poetry Live ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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