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C.K. Stead ONZ CBE
1972 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
- Discipline:
- Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Literary Critic
- Awards:
- Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 1972
- Highlight:
- Karl Miller, Founding Editor of the London Review of Books, wrote of C.K. Stead: “His talent is more than ambidextrous. To excel as a poet, novelist and critic is rarer than we tend to think, and Karl Stead has managed it.”
- Last Update:
- 18/09/2024, 03:00 pm
1972 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Christian Karlson “Karl” Stead is one of Aotearoa’s foremost literary icons. He is a novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. Born in 1932, he first started writing poetry as a teenager, while attending Mt Albert Grammar. He went on to graduate from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts in 1959, and in 1960 earned his Masters of Arts. At this time he and his wife were neighbours with short-story writer Frank Sargeson. Writer Janet Frame was living in a hut in Sargeson's garden, having recently been discharge
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C. K. Stead
Christian Karlson Stead (b. Auckland, New Zealand, 1932) Emeritus Professor at Auckland University, is perhaps New Zealand’s most internationally celebrated writer, with a literary life spanning more than fifty years as a poet, novelist, academic and critic. He is the author of eleven novels, fourteen volumes of poetry, two volumes of stories and several works of criticism. He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards honouring his services to literature, including a CBE in 1985, and in 2007 New Zealand’s highest honour, the Order of New Zealand. His work has been translated into many languages, and his output continues to win international accolades: his story ‘Last Season’s Man’ won the first Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award in 2010 and a prize of £25,000 – the largest prize in the world to date for a short story. Also in 2010, in somewhat of an annus mirabilis for Stead, and proving that age has not diminished his creative talents, his poem ‘Ischemia’ won the inaugural 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, a prize of £
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C. K. Stead
New Zealand writer (born 1932)
Christian Karlson "Karl" SteadONZ CBE (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.[2] He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers.[3]
Early life and education
Stead was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1932. He attended Mount Albert Grammar School.[4] He has said that growing up he rarely read New Zealand writers: "I read a few New Zealand writers at school but mainly it was a British education so one read British writers really".[2] Stead began writing poetry at about age 14 when he read a copy of the collected works of Rupert Brooke, sent by his sister's penpal in England.[2]
Stead graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts in 1954, and earned his Masters of Arts the following year.[5] At this time he and his wife were neighbours with short-story writer Frank Sargeson. Writer Janet Frame was living in a hut in Sarges
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