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The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It was founded as the New Zealand PEN Centre (Poets, Essays and Novelists) in 1934. [1] It broadened its scope and became the New Zealand Society of Authors in 1994, [2] under the presidency of writer Philip Temple.
Published Title Author Type Banned by Banned Current status Notes 1880 Nana: Émile Zola: Novel Magistrate's Court 1890 Unrestricted In 1888–89, publisher Henry Vizetelly was prosecuted in the United Kingdom for obscene libel for publishing translated works of Émile Zola. [18]
Federal agents arrested an Italian citizen Wednesday and accused of him running a yearslong scam in which he is believed to have stolen valuable unpublished literary manuscripts, officials said ...
Lynley Dodd (born 1941), children's author and illustrator; Alfred Domett (1811–1887), fourth Premier of New Zealand and poet; Robyn Donald (born 1940), romance novelist; Basil Dowling (1910–2000), poet; Melanie Drewery (born 1970), children's author and illustrator; Joan Druett (born 1935), historian and novelist
Denis James Matthews Glover DSC (9 December 1912 – 9 August 1980) was a New Zealand poet and publisher. Born in Dunedin, he attended the University of Canterbury where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently lectured.
Awarded annually by the New Zealand Society of Authors for books linked to New Zealand's heritage, in categories including heritage fiction and non-fiction, short prose, poetry, children's books, and te reo Māori or bilingual books. [40] NZ heritage 2013 Extant NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award
Writing in the New Zealand Herald on Johnson's critically well-received English to English translations of the Dang Dynasty poet, Li He (The Vertical Harp – the selected poems of Li He) writer and critic Iain Sharp wrote: ‘Mike Johnson is the most underrated of all living New Zealand authors. Sometimes gothic, sometimes lyrical, sometimes ...
The New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) is a New Zealand trade union which represents writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media. The guild's name in Māori language is Puni Taatuhi o Aotearoa. It provides services, events, networks, lobbying, and legal advice to writers mostly in the film and television industry.