Diane Edith Brown (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Background

Brown was born in 1951. She is based in

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Career

Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including: * ''Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland'' (1997, Tandem Press), poetry * ''Learning to Lie Together'' (2004, Godwit), poetry * ''If The Tongue Fits'' (1999, Tandem Press), novel * ''Eight Stages of Grace'' (2002, Random House), novel She is also the author of the memoirs ''Liars and Lovers'' (2004), ''Here Comes Another Vital Moment'' (2006), and ''Taking My Mother To The Opera'' (2015). Poetry by Brown has appeared in literary journals including ''

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Poetry New Zealand Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

,'' and ''

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''. Brown currently runs the creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin.

Awards

In the

2013 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2013 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms, various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Hon ...

, Brown was appointed a

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ren ...

, in recognition of services as a writer and educator. ''Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland'' won the 1997 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the

Montana 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 ...

. ''Eight Stages of Grace'' was a finalist in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Brown was the inaugural fellow at the Michael King Writer's Studio. In 1997 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with Shonagh Koea. She was also awarded the 2013 Beatson Fellowship from

Creative New Zealand The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...

and in 2012 won the

NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for mid-career fiction or poetry writers. It was named after New Zealand writer Janet Frame, who died in 2004, and funded by a gift from the Janet Frame Literary Trust. It was awarded biennially from ...

References

External links

Official homepage

Creative Writing Dunedin
Living people 1951 births New Zealand fiction writers New Zealand women novelists New Zealand women poets Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Writers from Dunedin Place of birth missing (living people) {{NewZealand-writer-stub