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NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize is an award for published and unpublished New Zealand writers. It is named after New Zealand writer Laura Solomon, who died in 2019, and funded by a gift from her family. It was first awarded in 2021. History The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize is an award which celebrates and commemorates the life and work of New Zealand writer Laura Solomon. Laura Solomon was a poet, novelist, playwright and software developer and a long time member of NZSA. When she was 22, her first novel ''Black Light'' was published, but her writing career was later cut short by the diagnosis of a brain tumour and she died on 18 February 2019, aged 44. The Prize is open to published or unpublished authors who have New Zealand citizenship or are permanent residents of New Zealand and covers manuscripts from a wide range of genres including fiction, poetry, drama, creative non fiction and writing for children. The judging criteria, as set by Laura Solomon, call for ... [...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] |
Laura Solomon
Laura Jane Solomon (28 June 1974 – 18 February 2019) was a New Zealand novelist, playwright and poet. She emerged as part of a new wave of young New Zealand writers in the 1990s anthologised in Mark Pirie's ''New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave'' (1998). Her first two novels were published around this time, while Solomon was in her early 20s, and she subsequently moved abroad to London where she wrote further works and trained as an IT professional. In 2007 she returned to New Zealand due to ongoing health problems, but continued to write and publish prolifically until her death. Solomon is best-known as a novelist, but her poetry and short stories have also been widely published and short-listed for awards and prizes. Early life and career Solomon was born in Auckland on 28 June 1974. Her mother was a special needs teacher and her father was an electrical engineer. She grew up in various parts of New Zealand, including Raetihi and Nelson. She graduated from Nayland College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Society Of Authors
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It was founded as the New Zealand PEN Centre (Poets, Essays and Novelists) in 1934. It broadened its scope and became the New Zealand Society of Authors in 1994, under the presidency of writer Philip Temple. There are eight branches covering all regions of New Zealand. Branches were established in Wellington and Auckland first, and later in Otago and Canterbury. The Otago Branch was established in Dunedin in 1982 under the leadership of writer and artist Christodoulos Moisa, who had moved to there from Auckland. He was helped by poet Graham Lindsay. Moisa had been nominated for membership by ''Auckland Star'' editor and writer David Ballantyne and Prof. Bernard Brown before he left Auckland to live in Dunedin. The branch used to meet once a month in the staffroom of the Hocken Building, where Moisa worked as an artist on the Ban Nadi Archeological project of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Harwood
Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth or Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century. Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette. People * Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom * Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835–1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel ''Little Women'' * Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), Dutch painter * Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century * Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer * Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist * Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality * Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death * Lizzie Borden (1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae Joyce
Rachel Fenton, also known as Rae Joyce (born 1976), is a graphic novel artist and author from New Zealand. Born Rachel J. Fenton in 1976, in Yorkshire, she moved to New Zealand in 2007. She currently uses the pen name Rae Joyce. Joyce graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 with a BA in English Studies. With Sarah Laing and Indira Neville, Joyce is the co-editor of Three Words (book), ''Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics''. In 2013 she won the 7th Annual Short Fiction Prize (in association with Plymouth University). She won the 2013 Flash Frontier Winter Award for excellence in writing. She was the runner up for the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize and her poem "Amazon" was longlisted for the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize. She was also shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize and won the 2011–2012 Auckland University of Technology, AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition prize for short graphic ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Werry
Philippa Werry (born 13 September 1958) is a New Zealand writer. Her book ''Iris and Me'' won the Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Bibliography * ''Iris and Me'' (The Cuba Press, 2023) * ''The Other Sister'' (Pipi Press, 2021) * ''This is Where I Stand'', illustrated by Kieran Rynhart (Scholastic, 2021) * ''Our Incredible Dogs'' (New Holland, 2020) * ''Antarctic Journeys'' (New Holland, 2019) * ''The Telegram'' (Pipi Press, 2019) * ''The New Zealand Wars'' (New Holland, 2018) * ''Armistice Day: The New Zealand story: what it is and why it matters'' (New Holland, 2016) * ''Waitangi Day: the New Zealand story: what it is and why it matters'' (New Holland, 2015) * ''Best Mates'', illustrated by Bob Kerr Robert Kerr may refer to: Sportsmen * Robert Kerr (Australian footballer) (born 1967), former Australian rules footballer * Robert Kerr (athlete) (1882–1963), Canadian athlete & Olympic medalist * Robbie Kerr (racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Murray (writer)
Lee Murray (born 1965) is a New Zealand science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. She is a multiple winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a twelve-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is most noted for her Taine McKenna military thrillers, and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra. Biography Murray was born in Putāruru, Waikato. She previously worked as a scientist and an advisor for the OECD. She is the co-founder of Young New Zealand Writers with Piper Mejia, an organization which has provided development and publishing opportunities for New Zealand school students. She suffers from anxiety and depression. She currently lives in Tauranga. Awards Her anthologies ''Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror'' and ''Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women'' won the Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in an Anthology" in 2018 and 2020 respectively, while her collection ''Grotesque: Monster Stories'' won the "Superior Achievement in a Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Zealand Literary Awards
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include: See also * New Zealand literature References {{reflist Literary awards 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. M ... New Zealand literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |