Fitzclarence Anstey John Caselberg (19 August 1927 – 16 April 2004) was a

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 count ...

writer. Caselberg was born at

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

, south of Nelson, in 1927 and educated at Nelson College from 1936 to 1944.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition (CD-ROM) His work ranged through poetry and playwriting to short stories and essays. Along with his wife, artist

Anna Caselberg Anna Margaret Frances Caselberg (née Woollaston, 1942–2004) was a New Zealand painter. Born in 1942, Caselberg was the daughter of Edith Winifred Woollaston (née Alexander) and the painter Toss Woollaston. She studied at the University of A ...

, he was at the centre of a thriving art and literary milieu which included his good friend and collaborator

Colin McCahon Colin John McCahon (; 1August 191927May 1987) was a prominent New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and ...

, father-in-law

Toss Woollaston Sir Mountford Tosswill "Toss" Woollaston (11 April 1910 – 30 August 1998) was a New Zealand artist. He is regarded as one of the most important New Zealand painters of the 20th century. Life Born in Toko, Taranaki in 1910, Woollaston attended ...

, and writer

Charles Brasch Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ''Landfall'', and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant im ...

. Caselberg was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago in 1961. He died in

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

in 2004. The

Caselberg Trust The Caselberg Trust is a charitable trust in New Zealand, named in honour of Anna and John Caselberg. It was established in 2006 to purchase the Caselberg's house in Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. The house ...

, a charitable trust supporting artists, is named in honour of John and Anna Caselberg. The Trust awards an amount of money each year to an aspiring artist or writer.

Publications

* Chart to My Country, John Caselberg. European travel notes, art criticism and stories of "Cultural Contact". John McIndoe Ltd, Dunedin, 1973.

References

1927 births 2004 deaths People from Wakefield, New Zealand People educated at Nelson College New Zealand writers People from Otago Peninsula People associated with The Group (New Zealand art) {{NewZealand-writer-stub