Writers Bios 2011
Here are the longer bios for the writers participating in the 2011 Wanganui Literary Festival. Click this link to find the full programme for this year's festival.
Here's what people said about the last festival:
“The Whanganui Literary Festival was a stand out for me in 2009. All the events were excellent, with the most memorable for me being Steve Braunias’ talk. The Alexander Library made an excellent venue. The opening very pleasant – poet Glenn Colquhoun was brilliant and Fiona Kidman most pleasing. We were so impressed by the amount of work that had gone into the organising and this year looks even more attractive.” Joan Street, actor and director, Whanganui
Elizabeth Smither
15 collections of poetry, including the award-winning A pattern of marching
(AUP, 1989), winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry 1990, and
The Lark Quartet (AUP, 1999), winner of the Montana New Zealand Book
Award for Poetry 2000. Three selected poems: The Tudor Style; poems new
and selected (AUP, 1993); A Question of Gravity; new and selected poems, edited by John Kinsella (Arc Publications, UK, 2004); Horse playing the accordion (Ahadada Press, 2007).
Elizabeth Smither was the first woman Te Mata Estate poet laureate and her
laureate collection, Red shoes (Godwit 2003) was published at the conclusion
of her two-year term (2001-3) Her most recent collection is The year of adverbs (Auckland University Press, 2007).
5 short story collections: Nights at the embassy (AUP, 1990); Mr Fish and
other stories (John McIndoe, 1994); The mathematics of Jane Austen (Godwit,
1997); Listening to the Everly Brothers & other stories (Penguin, 2003); The girl who proposed (Cape Catley, 2008).
5 novels: First Blood (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983); Brother-love sister-love
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1986); The sea between us (Penguin, 2003), short-
listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, 2004; Different kinds of pleasure (Penguin, 2006); Lola (Penguin, 2010)
Other publications include: The Journal Box (AUP, 1986), a collection of
4 journals, and a children’s picture book, Tug Brothers, illustrated by Fergus
Collinson, (OUP, 1983), The Sea Question; poems by Elizabeth Smither and
photographs by Jane Dove Juneau (South Pacific Light Press, 2010), The
Commonplace Book; a Writer’s Journey Through Quotations (AUP, 2011).
Widely published in New Zealand and overseas: poems and stories have appeared
in London Magazine, TLS, Harvard Review, Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The
Warwick Review, Rialto, Ariel, Malahat Review, PN Review, Image, Sow’s Ear, Image, Stand, Antioch Review, Quadrant, Heat, Landfall, Meanjin and on numerous websites including nzepc, foame, Inertia magazine, snorkel, Interpoetry, fieralingue, trout, turbine, Best New Zealand poems etc.
Prizes include: Freda Buckland Award, 1983; Auckland University Literary
Fellowship, 1984; Scholarship in Letters, 1987; Lilian Ida Smith Award, 1989;
Te Mata Estate poet laureate (2001-3); MNZM New Year’s Honour’s List, 2004;
Hon D. Litt. Auckland University, 2004; Prime Minister’s Award for Literary
Achievement in Poetry 2008.
Festival appearances include: Auckland (2), Wellington (2), Harbourfront, Melbourne (2), Aldeburgh (reading with Margaret Atwood and Hans Magnus Enzensberger) Southwell, Lancaster (during Arc international reading tour, 2004), Alcala de Henares, Spain (6th International Conference on the Short Story, 2004), Kuala Lumpur International Writers festival 2007; King’s Lynne Poetry Festival 2008, Salt on the Tongue, Goolwa Poetry Festival, 2010.
Bill Manhire
Bill Manhire was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature at the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Later that year, he was also honoured as an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, a career award which aims to ensure recipients' talents are celebrated both nationally and internationally. He has received two New Zealand Book Awards for Poetry: for Zoetropes (1985) and Milky Way Bar (1992). He has also twice received the Lilian Ida Smith Award for poetry, in 1987 and 1989.
My Sunshine received Book of the Year for Poetry at the 1996 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 1997, he was awarded the Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship . The programme seeks to increase understanding of Antarctica and its international importance through the work of New Zealand's top artists. Doubtful Sounds, published in 1999, is a collection of Manhire's nonfiction articles, essays and interviews.
In 1997, Manhire was named the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate. Administered by the National Library of New Zealand and funded by the New Zealand Government, the Poet Laureate is selected biennially and receives an award of $50,000 per year. What to Call Your Child (1999) contains poems written during Manhire's term as Poet Laureate, and was a finalist at the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Spectacular Babies (2000), edited by Karen Anderson and Bill Manhire, is an anthology of work by members of the 2000 Master of Arts in Creative Writing course, convened by Bill Manhire at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Manhire's Collected Poems (2001) is published by Victoria University Press in New Zealand and Carcanet in the UK.
Under the Influence (2003) is one of twelve titles in the Montana Estates essay series published by Four Winds Press. The press was established by Lloyd Jones to encourage and develop the essay genre in New Zealand. In his essay, Manhire writes about growing up in pubs in the South Island.
Bill Manhire is the recipient of the 2004 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. One of New Zealand's most long-standing and prestigious literary awards, the fellowship is offered annually to enable a New Zealand writer to work in Menton, France.
The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica (Victoria University Press, 2004), edited by Bill Manhire, is an Antarctic anthology unlike any other. Rather than the familiar accounts of heroic explorers, scientists and travel writers, this book is about the ways in which writers around the world have imaginatively explored - and sometimes invented - the Earth's most remote and mysterious continent. The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica was a finalist in the reference and anthology category of the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
121 New Zealand Poems (Godwit, 2005) is an expanded edition of 100 New Zealand Poems. The first edition was published in 1993, reprinted twice in 1994 and again later in the decade. New poets appearing in this edition include Glenn Colquhoun, Kate Camp, Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Emma Neale, James Brown, Chris Price, Kapka Kassabova and Sonja Yelich.
Manhire's poetry collection Lifted (Victoria University Press, 2005) received the Montana Award for Poetry at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Manhire at 60: A Book for Bill, published in 2007 by Victoria University Press, was edited by Fergus Barrowman and Damien Wilkins. Published in a limited edition of 500 copies for Bill's birthday, this is an anthology including memoirs, essays, poems, stories and extracts from a work-in-progress which have been contributed by over 40 writers who have been inspired by Bill as writer, teacher and friend.
His most recent work is The Victims of Lightning, published by Victoria University Press in 2010. Manhire’s first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. In The Victims of Lightning are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs.Source: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/manhireb.html
New Plymouth born, Master Chef NZ Brett McGregor's many years of travel have inspired the way he cooks. Like many New Zealanders he's travelled widely and picked up lots of great recipes along the way. The collection in Taste of a Traveller (Random House) draws from the diverse tastes and experiences he's gathered while travelling. Since becoming Master Chef NZ he has also started a new weekly food column for New Idea and
However as of February 22 he's been working in a kitchen - and a house - hit hard by the Christchurch earthquake. "The kitchen is in one piece now, cleaned up and ready to go, apart from some wonky and splitting floorboards, but after the earthquake the bench was in the middle of the room." The rest of his house is liveable but in need of major repair, with cracked and broken foundations, walls and ceilings.
"The damage is more than $10,000 which means we have to wait to get it fixed and we don't really know for how long - but we were lucky really."
With family and friends all safe accounted for McGregor turned his attention and cooking skills to helping well-known Christchurch chef Johnny Schwass, whose own restaurant was reduced to rubble, feed the homeless in shelters. It's a tumultuous time to find yourself promoting your first cookbook, but the publication of Taste of a Traveller is the realisation of one of McGregor's most long-held dreams.
The Random House book deal came as part of his MasterChef prize package, but that didn't lessen the level of work involved in producing it. Much of 2010 was spent gathering and refining the recipes he wanted to put in it, taking recipes he loved from Southeast Asia and parts of Europe, making them accessible to Kiwis, and able to be recreated in home kitchens.
"The recipes in here are really simple because that's how we cook and eat at home - and they can be done by kids because Jack (McGregor's 7-year-old son) helps..."Written by Kerri Jackson, New Zealand Herald, Tuesday Mar 29, 2011
Elizabeth Knox’s The Vintner's Luck was first published Victoria University Press in 1998. Set in Burgundy in the nineteenth century, the novel tells the magical and spellbinding story of Sobran Jodeau, a vintner from the village of Aluze. On a midsummer's night, Sobran's life is forever changed when he is visited by an angel named Xas, a gorgeous creature with wings that smell of snow.
Elizabeth Knox was the 1999 recipient of the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. One of New Zealand's most long-standing and prestigious literary awards, the fellowship is offered annually to enable a New Zealand writer to work in Menton, France.
The Vintner's Luck won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards. It was also shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize, and in 2001 it was awarded the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Prize.
Knox's three volumes of autobiographical writing, Paremata, Pomare, and Tawa are now collected as The High Jump: a New Zealand Childhood (2000).
Knox was the recipient of a 2000 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award, which aims to ensure recipients' talents are celebrated both nationally and internationally. 'Knox's achievement is already considerable with the break-through success of The Vintner's Luck', says Arts Foundation panel member and poet Bill Manhire. 'We believe she is about to become a major international writer.'
About Black Oxen (2001), the Guardian's Sarah May writes: 'The new book by acclaimed New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox is as crowded as you would expect a novel on the question of human destiny to be . . . Complex without being complicated, Black Oxen possesses a pure and whole-hearted intelligence. As in The Vintner's Luck, Knox demonstrates an imagination that is both vast and relentless in its pursuit of the truth. This is a world with four dimensions and six senses. Any leap of faith it might require is more than worth taking.'
The Boston Globe found Black Oxen 'even more lush, dark, and puzzling' than The Vintner's Luck. 'Knox has provocative, disturbing things to say about how we define identity. She is obsessed with consciousness, sensation, memory, and the ways in which families mold, adapt, and define themselves. Her idiosyncratic stylistic impulses, though often irritating, are suave and assured, and she has a dead-on eye for atmospherics and the telling landscape. The poor beasts of Knox's title sometimes have a heavy load to haul in this long, challenging, even exasperating novel, but readers who share their diligence and patience will be startled to find out where the journey takes them and strangely satisfied at its end.'
James Urquhart of the Independent on Sunday ends his long review: 'Knox bothers her readers with tenderness, suspense and glistening webs of meaning, but rewards, in the round, with a superb piece of narrative therapy.'
Billie's Kiss (2002) is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other towards the Protestant north and Scandinavia.
Knox was awarded an ONZM for her services to literature in the 2002 New Zealand Queen's Birthday honours list.
Billies Kiss was short listed in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Daylight (2003) was described in Publishers Weekly as 'on a par with the best Anne Rice has to offer.' Daylight is set on the beautiful Mediterranean Coast, yet much of it takes place in a 'world beneath the world' where history meets myth and vampires hearts still beat. Now published in the USA, Daylight has received an enthusiastic review in The Washington Post. Douglas E. Winter, author of the critical biography Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic, praises Knox for revitalising 'a weary genre'.
'But fantasies, Knox suggests, are mirrors of reality, and do not exist without consequences. Doomed to night and shadow, her vampires offer the ominous prospect that progress is the true monster and remind us that daylight and illumination are very different things. In Daylight, Elizabeth Knox has written a Northanger Abbey for the new century, an entertaining fiction that offers a potent summation and critique of a weary genre. Her style is meticulous and dreamlike, moving with a languor worthy of its nightwalkers. She demands and deserves a careful reading, because there is no doubt: Daylight is not just another vampire novel.' (The Washington Post). The novel was also shortlisted for Best Book in the South Pacific & South East Asian Region of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Dreamhunter (HarperCollins, 2005) is fast-paced and dazzlingly imaginative, drawing the reader into an extraordinary fictional world in which dreams are as vividly described as the cream cakes in the tea shop, the sand on the beach or the memories of first love. It was nominated in the 2006 shortlist for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and won the 2006 Esther Glen Award in recognition of distinguished contribution to New Zealand children's literature.
The judging panel said of Knox, 'Few writers can make the transition from the extravagances of writing for adults to the conciseness necessary when writing for children and young adults, yet Elizabeth Knox has achieved this with Dreamhunter. The plot is brilliantly original and convincing, and the writing is superb.' Dreamhunter was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2007. The Best Books list is compiled by a committee of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association.
Part Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, Dreamquake, was published in 2007 by Harper Collins. It concludes the duet in the same spirit of deeply imagined and ingeniously constructed story that is both part myth and fairytale. 'Knox not only generates a riveting mystery and a forcefully original myth of place, but raises some challenging questions about power and freedom, artistic licence, the role of the storyteller, and the way that both history and the future are constructed around dreams and fantasies of one sort or another'.
Dreamquake won the Michael L Printz Award in 2008 and an ALA Best book award in the same year. The follow-up to her award-winning novel The Vintner's Luck was published by Victoria University Press in 2009. The Angel's Cut is an evocative and wildly romantic new novel, set in 1929 boomtown Los Angeles. Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, student flier and wingless angel, determined only to go on living in the air while confronted by forces trying to keep him on the ground.
In 2009, Knox received the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work, for The Invisible Road. She was interviewed by David Larsen in the anthology, Words Chosen Carefully, edited by Siobhan Harvey (Cape Catley Ltd, 2010).Source: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/knoxelizabeth.html
Jenny Robin Jones’ first book was Writers in Residence which deals with twenty 19th century authors who wrote about New Zealand. As the publishers, Auckland University Press remarked: ‘With apparent effortlessness and a refreshing lack of seriousness, this book... presents in human terms what it meant to be a writer in a strange new land, and covers in a most palatable way a good deal of nineteenth-century social, political and literary history. Unexpected people took to the pen; travellers recorded their adventures; soldiers, judges, civil servants burst into print. The 20 writers include: Joel Polack, London-born, Jewish, early settler and travel writer; William Colenso, English-born printer who produced the first printed materials in New Zealand; Edward Jerningham Wakefield, English-born explorer and clerk who was a propagandist for the New Zealand Company and wrote a handbook for colonists; Frederick Maning, Irish-born early settler and trader who wrote two histories of New Zealand published in the 1860s; Samuel Butler, English journalist, columnist and novelist, perhaps best known for Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh; Lady Barker, Jamaican-born, she published entertaining and successful collections of letters and stories about life on the early Canterbury sheep stations...’ A visit to Wanganui by George Bernard Shaw is included. He felt that a sensible God would have flattened the Parapara.
While Writers in Residence required considerable research it is not an academic book and is written with humour and verve. The author says of it, 'I hope to have captured something of the reality of the lives lived and to create a sense of this country as one inhabited by writers.'
No Simple Passage, her latest book is again carefully researched. It will particularly interest those with forebears who came to New Zealand on the London, but it also offers the general reader an understanding of what life was like for our European ancestors. Jenny Robin Jones has an excellent website at www.jennyrobinjones.com
Vanda Symon
Rising star of New Zealand crime fiction, Vanda Symon, will attend this year’s festival. Her first novel, Overkill, was published in March 2007 by Penguin Books. It introduces series heroine Sam Shephard, and centres on the looks-like suicide death of a young mother in a small rural town in New Zealand. Since then Vanda Symon has written three more gripping novels featuring Sam Shephard, and she has had international success with German translations of her work. The fourth novel in the series, Bound, has recently been released. Vanda Symons also features on National Radio as a literary critic and is an active member of the New Zealand Society of Authors. You can read the first chapter of all her novels at her website http://www.vandasymon.com/
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins had an early interest in maritime and local history led to degrees in Art History and a professional specialisation in design and architectural history. Formerly an Associate Professor, School of Design, at UNITEC, Auckland, he is now the Director of the Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery, Napier.
He has been a columnist for the New Zealand Herald, and the Listener and currently contributes to many prestigious magazines. From an early age he made New Zealand design history his forte. This has led to a celebration of pioneers like fabric designer Avis Higgs, ceramics genius Frank Carpay and wallpaper designer, William Mason whose work is celebrated in Mason: Handprints (2001).
In 2005, his book At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design won the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction and the Montana Award for History. It was the first book to look at the history of the style and interior design of the New Zealand house. The book led to a highly successful television documentary series, New Zealand At Home, presented by Lloyd Jenkins.
New Dreamland: Writing New Zealand Architecture (2006) is a selection of 28 key essays that have shaped New Zealand architecture and architectural thinking in the 20th century. 40 Legends of New Zealand Design was published in 2006. This eclectic collection gathers together Lloyd Jenkins columns for NZ Home & Entertaining, plus several new profiles.Peter Wells' Dangerous Desires won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction at the 1992 New Zealand Book Awards. In 1994, he was awarded the Auckland University Literary Fellowship.
Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a writer/director in film. His fiction looks at a world of secrets, identity, subterfuge and illusion, frequently using the lens of a gay narrator. His first book, Dangerous Desires, won the Reed Fiction Award, the NZ Book Award, and PEN Best New Book in Prose in 1992. His memoir won the 2002 Montana NZ Book Award for Biography, and he has won many awards for his work as a film director. He is co-founder of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. In 2006, Wells was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and film.
Wells was joint winner (with C.K. Stead) of the 1999 Landfall Essay Competition Prize for 'When my brother got thin'. This was included in his memoir, Long Loop Home (Vintage, 2001) which looked back at a New Zealand childhood in the 1950s through the lens of a wry, disaffected viewer. The memoir was broadcast on National Radio and won the Biography Award in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Wells' writing has lent itself to cinema and television drama, and reviewers have often commented on its highly visual nature. Niki Caro chose 'Of Memory and Desire', a novella from the collection Dangerous Desires for her first feature film; and Stewart Main directed a television drama based on 'One of Them!', from the same collection. The novella One of Them! (Vintage, 1999) was republished to coincide with the television screening. Wells brought his literary skills to bear on his memories of being a cinema-goer and contemporary New Zealand film-maker in an essay-book called, On Going to the Movies (Four Winds Press, 2005).
His second novel, Iridescence (Vintage, 2003) spans three decades of the Victorian age. Remittance men were sent away from Britain to live in a colony on a small and regular sum - a remittance. Usually behind them was some disgrace or scandal, a secret that each man carried, often to the grave. Samuel Barton, a remittance man, is blown into Napier in 1971, after an undisclosed scandal. He carries with him an earring made up of fabulous jewels. With this earring he will buy his freedom. Iridescence was a runner up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004. It was also a finalist in the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize. An interview with Peter Wells about the writing of Iridescence can be found here.
In 2005, Wells edited The Cat's Whiskers, a best-selling anthology of New Zealand writers talking about their relationship to cats. It included memoir, fiction and poetry by writers as various as Hone Tuwhare, Margaret Mahy, Shonagh Koea and James K Baxter.
His third novel, Lucky Bastard (Vintage, 2007), looked at the role of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome on a New Zealand family after the end of World War Two. The novel is set partially in a noirish bombed-out Tokyo in 1947, in which a disillusioned young New Zealander, working for the Tokyo War Crimes tibunal, sought to find Japanese war criminals. It then jumps to contemporary New Zealand, where the children of the one-time young man tried to come to terms with their father's ambiguous war-time legacy. Siobhan Harvey praises his work, 'Lucky Bastard is... a novel of acute breadth, its individual and collective searches for resolution played out across the past and present, as well as across varying viewpoints.' (Listener, October 13-19 2007 Vol 210 No 3518).
Wells has married visual material to literary matter in two audiovisual essays and talks: 'A Hole in the Hedge: Landscape and the Fragility of Memory' (University of Waikato, 2007), a talk which looked at Frank Sargeson's cottage in Auckland and the role of memory and place in Pakeha values; and 'Somebody's Darling' (2008), an audiovisual essay about the stories of the Napier Cemetary,which also speculates on the ambiguous role of memory in a post-colonial culture.
Peter Wells, along with Stephanie Johnson, is the founder of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, which was founded in 1999. He continues to be a creative director of the festival.Joseph Romanos’ talk at the festival may well be provocative as the following article from the ‘Timaru Herald’ attests:
‘It's not a bad thing that interest in rugby is declining. A UMR Research poll this month revealed that interest in rugby was at 60 per cent nationally, the lowest figure since the company began this particular survey 16 years ago.
The statistics confirm what we've long suspected. Use any measuring stick you care to and the answer will be the same rugby does not have the hold it once did. Hardly any of the home tests this season have been sellouts, though our modern all-seater stadiums have much smaller capacities.
Super 14 attendance figures have declined markedly since the halcyon early days of the Super competition in the 1990s. Wellington, who almost never hold the Ranfurly Shield, attracted a crowd of only 10,000 to Westpac Stadium for their first home defence of the Ranfurly Shield this season, against Otago.
Television viewing figures are harder to gauge because Sky Television offers several replays of big matches, but it is almost certain that test matches are being watched by hundreds of thousands fewer than when rugby interest was at its peak. And look at schools. Whereas until a couple of decades ago, the country's major boys' colleges fielded perhaps 30 rugby teams and a token couple of soccer teams, now they have far more soccer than rugby teams, and the gap is widening.
Reaction to the UMR Research has been revealing. The Rugby Union tends to shrug off the figures, saying rugby is forever going through peaks and troughs. Some officials inside the rugby union still insist that proof of the decline in rugby interest is no more than anecdotal.
In truth, New Zealand rugby has been losing its public since the game went professional in 1995. Top players no longer play club rugby and the fact that they make so much money makes it harder for their fans to identify with them. My feeling is that as interest in rugby diminishes, we are growing as a country. Sure, the All Blacks will always attract support for big matches, like the World Cup. Rugby is, after all, our national game, and no other sport even comes near to it in New Zealand. But the unquestioning, burning passion is dying. There could never be a season again like 1956, when the Springboks toured, and it became a national mission that the All Blacks beat them.
People queued outside rugby grounds all night in mid-winter to secure tickets for the major matches. Boys attending big colleges aren't automatically shepherded towards rugby. They can represent their school at dragon boat racing, bowls, golf, underwater hockey, canoe polo and so on. There's been a broadening of interest, which makes for a healthy society. It's a bit like television. Until the 1970s, people watching television in New Zealand were all watching the same thing. There was only one channel.
Now television viewers here have a vast numbers of channels to choose from. So it is with sport. You are no longer looked at sideways if you follow squash, or mountain running or curling. There is much more individual choice. Our country is growing up. ‘
From ‘Timaru Herald’
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