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Anne French (born 1956) is a New Zealand editor and poet.


Life

French was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated from Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University of Wellington with an MA. She worked as an editor for Oxford University Press, becoming New Zealand Managing Editor in 1982, and subsequently New Zealand Publisher. In 1995 she set up Te Papa Press, a publishing business within the Commercial Division of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/French,%20Anne


Awards

* 1973 and 1974 PEN Young Writer’s Incentive Award * 1988 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry * 1988 PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award 1993 Inaugural Writer in Residence, Massey University


Works

* * * The Male as Evader (1988) * Cabin Fever (1990) * Seven Days on Mykonos (1993). * * * The Blue Voyage (2015)


Contributor

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Anthologies

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References


External links


"Anne French", ''new zealand electronic poetry centre''
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