Barbara Anderson (writer)

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Barbara Anderson
c. 2009
c. 2009
BornBarbara Lillias Romaine Wright
(1926-04-14)14 April 1926
Hastings, New Zealand
Died24 March 2013(2013-03-24) (aged 86)
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Otago
Victoria University of Wellington
GenreShort Stories, novels
Spouse
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(m. 1951; died 2010)​
Children2

Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson (née Wright, 14 April 1926 – 24 March 2013) was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognised and a best-selling author after her first book was published in her sixties.[1]

Career

Born Barbara Lillias Romaine Wright in Hastings, she was educated at the University of Otago where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. In 1951, she married Neil Anderson, a Royal New Zealand Navy officer later to become Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff. They had two sons. After a career as a medical technologist and as a teacher, she went back to university in Wellington, New Zealand, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.[1]

Anderson took

Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards in 1992.[4] It was a bestseller and received critical acclaim in New Zealand and overseas.[2]

Her husband was knighted in 1982,

Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago, and in 2011 she received the prestigious Arts Foundation Icon Award.[2]

She died in Auckland on 24 March 2013.[6][7][8]

Works

  • I Think We Should Go Into the Jungle : Short Stories. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1989; London: Secker & Warburg, 1993.
  • Girls' High. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1990, 1999; London: Secker & Warburg, 1991.
  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1992; London: Secker & Warburg, 1992; New York: Norton, 1993; London: Minerva, 1993.
  • All the Nice Girls. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1993, 1999; London: Cape, 1994; London: Vintage, 1995.
  • The House Guest. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1995; London: Cape, 1995; London: Vintage, 1997.
  • Proud Garments. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1996.
  • The Peacocks : and Other Stories. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1997.
  • Glorious things, and other stories. London: Cape, 1999.
  • Long Hot Summer. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999; London: Cape, 2000.
  • The Swing Around. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
  • Getting There: An Autobiography, 2008[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Anderson, Barbara". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Barbara Anderson's Biography". The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  3. ^ Wevers, Lydia. "I think we should go into the jungle". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Past Winners: 1992". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  5. ^ "No. 49010". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 11 June 1982. p. 39.
  6. ^ NZ author Barbara Anderson dies | 3news.co.nz
  7. ^ wclstaff. "Writer Barbara Anderson dies". Library Blog. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Barbara Anderson | Arts Foundation Icon". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2021.

External links

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