Events In History
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31 October 1985Keri Hulme wins Booker PrizeWhen Keri Hulme’s first novel, The bone people, won the Booker Prize in 1985, it was not only New Zealand’s first Booker, but the first debut novel ever to win the prestigious award. Read more...
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18 February 1982'Queen of Crime' Ngaio Marsh diesNgaio Marsh, one of the 'Queens of Crime' in the 1920s and 1930s, died just weeks after submitting her 32nd detective novel, Light thickens, to her publishers. She was also an artist, playwright, actor and director. Read more...
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3 March 1960Barry Crump publishes A good keen manOne of the most-read books in New Zealand publishing history, A good keen man established Barry Crump’s reputation as an iconic ‘Kiwi bloke’. Read more...
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26 April 1945Death of John MulganAt the time of his death by suicide in Cairo, many New Zealanders knew little about the Christchurch-born author of Man alone Read more...
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23 August 1939Writer Robin Hyde dies in LondonThe journalist, poet and novelist, born Iris Wilkinson, was one of New Zealand's finest inter-war writers. Troubled by depression, illness and poverty, she took her own life in London. Read more...
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8 May 1926New Zealand Railways Magazine launchedOriginally intended as a journal for the Railways Department’s 18,000 staff and their major customers, the New Zealand Railways Magazine evolved into a hugely popular general-interest periodical. Read more...
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9 January 1923Death of Katherine MansfieldInternationally acclaimed author Katherine Mansfield revolutionised 20th-century English short-story writing. She died from tuberculosis in France, aged just 34. Read more...
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9 May 1907First School Journal publishedNew Zealand pupils were for the first time able to read a schoolbook published in their own country. Read more...
Articles
Making of New Zealand literature
Historian and poet Keith Sinclair has argued that the 1950s was the decade 'when the New Zealand intellect and imagination came alive'
- Page 1 - The making of New Zealand literatureHistorian and poet Keith Sinclair has argued that the 1950s was the decade 'when the New Zealand intellect and imagination came
Links - arts and literature
Recommended links relating to New Zealand arts, literature and music
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New Zealand Book Month
Kiwis love books. To celebrate New Zealand Book Month, we have come up with 31 reasons to love New Zealand books and writing.
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A selection of stories about the history of Kiwi writing, writers and books – one for each day of NZ Book Month.
First World War bibliography
Sources for further reading about New Zealand's First World War experience.
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Biographies
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Wilkinson, Iris Guiver ('Robin Hyde')
Robin Hyde packed a lot into her short and often tragic life. Best known today for her novels Passport to hell, Nor the years condemn and The godwits fly, she was also a fine poet, a crusading journalist and an outspoken advocate for the downtrodden.
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Marsh, Ngaio Edith
The magazine Newsweek described her novels as 'the best whodunits ever written'. Marsh was also an artist, playwright, actor and director.
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Mulgan, John Alan Edward
A keen observer and commentator on European politics in the 1930s, Mulgan is perhaps best known as the author of Man alone (1939).
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Mansfield, Katherine
Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews, and is regarded as a central figure in British modernism.
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Davey, Norris Frank
Frank Sargeson, born Norris Frank Davey in 1903, was one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers of the 20th century.
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Main image: Katherine Mansfield
Autographed photograph of Katherine Mansfield in 1914
