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Prime Minister's Awards For Literary Achievement
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement is a New Zealand literary award established in 2003 by the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand), the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government. Each winner in three categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry receives a monetary award of NZ$60,000. Winners Source: 2022 * Fiction: Stephanie Johnson * Nonfiction: Vincent O'Malley * Poetry: James Norcliffe 2021 * Fiction: David Hill * Nonfiction: Claudia Orange * Poetry: Anne Kennedy 2020 * Fiction: Tessa Duder * Nonfiction: Tīmoti Kāretu * Poetry: Jenny Bornholdt 2019 * Fiction: Elizabeth Knox * Nonfiction: Gavin Bishop * Poetry: Fleur Adcock 2018 *Fiction: Renée *Nonfiction: Wystan Curnow *Poetry: Michael Harlow 2017 *Fiction: Witi Ihimaera *Nonfiction: Peter Simpson *Poetry: Paula Green 2016 *Fiction: Marilyn Duckworth *Nonfiction: Atholl Anderson *Poetry: David Eggleton 2015 *Fiction: Roger Hall *Nonfiction: Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.Call for entries (22 February 2008) The awards were designed as "a new initiative celebrating the contribution of to the nation's cultural and intellectual life." The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total. In 2011, the prize money was split i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Phillips
John Oliver Crompton Phillips (born 1947) is a New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist. He was the general editor of '' Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', the official encyclopedia of New Zealand. Career Born and raised in Christchurch, Phillips graduated with a BA at Victoria University of Wellington, followed by a MA and PhD at Harvard in 1978. Returning to Wellington was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in History at Victoria. He was founding director of the Stout Research Centre (established by the will of the grandson of Robert Stout). Moving to the Department of Internal Affairs in 1989, Phillips was Chief Historian (1989–1997 and 2000–2002) and General Manager, Heritage (Acting) (1997–2000). He was Conceptual Leader (history) for Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 1994–1998, in the lead-up to its radical transformation, accompanying its move to new waterfront premises. From 2002 to 2011, Phillips was general editor of Te Ara, (New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lasenby
John Millen Lasenby (9 March 1931 – 27 September 2019), commonly known as Jack Lasenby, was a New Zealand writer. He wrote over 30 books for children and young adults, many of which were shortlisted for or won prizes. He was also the recipient of numerous awards including the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award in 2003 and the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction in 2014. Biography Born on 9 March 1931 in Waharoa, a small farming community in the Waikato, Lasenby was the son of Linda Lasenby (née Bryce) and Owen Liberty Lasenby. He attended Waharoa Primary School and went on to Matamata Intermediate and Matamata College from 1943 to 1949. From 1950 to 1952, he studied at Auckland University College, where he first met Margaret Mahy, who was also to become a notable New Zealand children's writer. He later described her as "one of the three most intelligent people I've known, a dear friend, and a continual source of laughter, and imaginative wonder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Hall
Bernadette Hall (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet. Biography Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed." After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies, she started writing full-time in her forties. She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University and is widely published. biography at the New Zealand Electronic Text Center She spent 10 years as the editor of ''Takahe'' magazine and five as the poetry editor of '' |
Joan Metge
Dame Alice Joan Metge (born 21 February 1930) is a New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer. Biography Metge was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Roskill on 21 February 1930, the daughter of Alice Mary Metge (née Rigg) and Cedric Leslie Metge. She was educated at Matamata District High School and Epsom Girls' Grammar School. She went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Master of Arts with first-class honours in 1952, and the London School of Economics where she earned her PhD in 1958. As of 2004, she continued to advance peace initiatives via her work as a member of the Waitangi National Trust Board, a conference presenter, adviser, and as a mentor to mediators and conflict management practitioners. A scholar on Māori topics, she has been recognised for promoting cross-cultural awareness and has published a number of books and articles in her career. She has likened the relationship among the people of New Zealand to "a rope fm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hall (playwright)
Sir Roger Leighton Hall (born 17 January 1939) is one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights, arguably best known for comedies that carry a vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos. Biography Early years Hall was born in Woodford, Essex, England, and educated at London's University College School from 1952 until 1955, when he embarked on a career in insurance. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1957 and continued to work in insurance, also performing in amateur theatre in the city of Wellington. He continued to act while attending Wellington Teachers’ College and Victoria University of Wellington; fellow actor John Clarke praised his impression of then Prime Minister Keith Holyoake as the template for all others. Hall began writing plays for children while teaching, which included a spell at Berhampore School, Wellington. He became a naturalised New Zealander in 1980. Career Hall began writing for television in the 1960s – over the next four decades his televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has appeared in a multitude of publications in New Zealand and he has released over 18 poetry books (1986–2001) with a variety of publishers, including Penguin. Early life Born in Auckland and of mixed European, Tongan, and Rotuman descent, Eggleton spent part his formative years in both Fiji and Auckland, dropping out of school to take up performance music and poetry.Eggleton, David ", ''New Zealand Book Council. June 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Eggleton later moved to |
Atholl Anderson
Atholl John Anderson (born 1943) is a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in New Zealand and the Pacific. His work is notable for its syntheses of history, biology, ethnography and archaeological evidence. He made a major contribution to the evidence given by the iwi (tribe) Ngāi Tahu to the Waitangi Tribunal. Early life Anderson was born in 1943 in Taranaki and is descended from Ngāi Tahu on Rakiura (Stewart Island). He grew up in Dunedin and Nelson. Education Anderson conducted a survey of archaeological sites in Tasman Bay for his Masters degree in geography from the University of Canterbury which he received in 1966. This masters thesis title was ''Maori occupation sites in back beach deposits around Tasman Bay''. He then completed a Diploma in Teaching and in 1968 became assistant principal of a school in Karamea on the West Coast of the South Island. In 1970 he began an MA in Anthropology at the University of Otago which he completed in 1973 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Duckworth
Marilyn Duckworth (born 10 November 1935) is a New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published 16 novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio. Early life Duckworth was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in England. Her father was the psychologist and Esperantist Cyril Adcock, and her sister is the poet Fleur Adcock. Career Duckworth's first novel, ''A Gap in the Spectrum'', was published when she was 23. Her debut in 1959 puts her in the second generation of New Zealand novelists of the Provincial period. Honours, awards and nominations * 1963: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement for ''A Barbarous Tongue'' * 1985: New Zealand Book Award:Fiction for ''Disorderly Conduct'' * 1095: Wattie Book of the Year Award (shortlisted) for ''Disorderly Conduct'' * 1987: Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Green (poet)
Paula Joy Green (born 1955) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. Background Green was born in 1955, in Auckland. She attended the Kamo High School. In 2005 Green received her PhD in Italian, supervised by Bernadette Luciano, and was Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland. Green is married to the painter Michael Hight and currently lives in Auckland. Career Green has published several collections of her own poetry including: * ''Cookhouse'' (1997, Auckland University Press) * ''Chrome'' (2000, Auckland University Press) * ''Crosswind'' (2004, Auckland University Press) * ''Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins'' (2007, Auckland University Press) * ''Slip Stream'' (2010, Auckland University Press) * ''The Baker's Thumbprint'' (2013, Seraph Press) * ''New York Pocket Book'' (2017, Seraph Press) * "The Track" (2019, Seraph Press) Her books for children include: * ''Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo'' (2006, Auckland University Press), as editor, written in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Simpson (writer)
Peter Alan Simpson (born 1942) is an academic, writer, literary critic, and former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Early life Simpson was born in Tākaka in 1942. From 1955 to 1959, he was educated at Nelson College, where he was a prefect and member of the school's 1st XV rugby union team in his final year. He gained a MA (Hons) from the University of Canterbury, and a PhD from the University of Toronto with a 1975 thesis titled '' 'Wordsworth to Hardy: lines of relationship and continuity in nineteenth century English poetry' ''. Member of Parliament He represented the electorate of Lyttelton in Parliament from 1987 to 1990, when he was defeated by Gail McIntosh, one of a number of losses contributing to the fall of the Fourth Labour Government. Before entering parliament he was chairman of the Lyttelton electorate committee of the Labour Party. Professional life Simpson had been teaching English since the 1960s at various universities. He was at Massey Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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