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Issue 59 | August 2003
Volume 13 | Number 3 | Issue 59 | August 2003 Janet Wilson: Marilyn Duckworth, Swallowing Diamonds Editorial Correspondence Gavin McLean: Heather Worth, Anna Paris and Louisa Allen (eds), The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New…
The art of the odd, Janet Wilson
Swallowing Diamonds Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415485 In Marilyn Duckworth, New Zealand has its finest writer of the absurd. Although others have written about states of unreality or non-reality – most particularly Janet Frame, younger novelists like Elizabeth Knox,…
Tagged with: Issue 59, Janet Wilson, Marilyn Duckworth, Spring 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Lore meets law, Kate Riddell
Mihipeka: Call of an Elder Karanga a te kuia Mihi Edwards Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228222 The Tribes of Muriwhenua: Their Origins and Stories Dorothy Urlich Cloher (Maori translation by Merimeri Penfold) Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402693 Rere atu,…
Tagged with: Alex Frame, Auckland University Press, Dorothy Urlich Cloher, Issue 59, Jane McRae, Jenifer Curnow, Kate Riddell, Merimeri Penfold, Mihi Edwards, Ngapare Hopa, Spring 2002, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Avoiding the cookie-cutter, Jennifer Lawn
Manifold Utopia: The Novels of Janet Frame Marc Delrez Rodopi, $59.95 approx, ISBN 904201508X The appearance of the term “manifold” in the titles of two recent books on Janet Frame’s fiction suggests a current fascination with the multiple modes of…
Tagged with: Issue 59, Janet Frame, Jennifer Lawn, Marc Delrez, Rodopi, Spring 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Literary honours
Playwright Roger Hall of Auckland was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in the latest Queen’s Birthday honours. Jo Noble, also of Auckland, was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)…
Short lives on earth, Rebecca J Davies
Life on Earth Sue McCauley Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415493 Water Bernard Steeds Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018353 The Chandrasekhar Limit and other stories Sugu Pillay The Writers Group, price unavailable, ISBN 0473087316 There is a common misconception that big themes require…
Tagged with: Bernard Steeds, Issue 59, Penguin, Rebecca J Davies, Spring 2002, Sue McCauley, Sugu Pillay, The Writers Group, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Montana Book Award winners
The Shag Incident, a novel by Aucklander Stephanie Johnson, has won this year’s Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Runners up were The Hopeful Traveller by Fiona Farrell, also a novel, and a short story…
Taking ideas for a walk, Anne French
Tracing the Arc John Saker Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237557 On Make-up and Makeover Paula Boock Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237549 Notes of a Bag Lady Margaret Mahy Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237522 Until recently, the essay…
Tagged with: Anne French, Four Winds Press, Issue 59, John Saker, Margaret Mahy, Paula Boock, Spring 2002
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Adventures in the waiting room, Garth Baker
Going the Distance – Women Outdoors in New Zealand Tess Redgrave Tandem Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877298018 Seduced by the Sea ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869504461 Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail Geoff Chapple Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941537X…
Tagged with: Geoff Chapple, HarperCollins, Issue 59, Random House, Spring 2002, Tandem Press, Tess Redgrave, Tessa Duder
Posted in Awards, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Awards, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Owen Marshall awarded inaugural fellowship
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