C. K. Stead
C. K. Stead PhD, 1961) | |
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Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Auckland |
Doctoral students | Roger Horrocks[1] |
Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead
Early life and education
Stead was born in Auckland 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 Sargeson's garden, having recently been discharged after nine years in a mental hospital. Frame later wrote about this time in her memoir An Angel at My Table, and Stead covered the same period in his autobiographical novel All Visitors Ashore (1984).[6]
Academic and literary career
Stead completed his
Stead's first novel, Smith's Dream, about a war similar to the Vietnam War in New Zealand, was published in 1971.[6] Stead was an opponent of the Vietnam War.[6] Smith's Dream provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill, which became the first New Zealand film released in the United States.
In the 1980s, Stead's writings about
Stead retired from his position as the Professor of English at the University of Auckland in 1986 to write full time, after the success of his novel All Visitors Ashore (1984).
Stead has continued to write and receive international accolades well into his seventies and eighties. In 2010 he won the inaugural
Stead was appointed a
In August 2015, Stead was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2015 to 2017.[19] To celebrate the conclusion of Stead's term as Poet Laureate,[20] the Alexander Turnbull Library published a signed, limited edition book of his work called In the Mirror, and Dancing. The little volume of poems was hand-pressed by Brendan O'Brien and illustrated with line sketches by New Zealand expatriate artist Douglas MacDiarmid.[21] The book was launched on 8 August 2017 in Wellington, with the assistance of Gregory O'Brien.[22]
Personal life
Stead and his wife Kay have three children.[16] His daughter Charlotte Grimshaw is a well-known New Zealand writer.
List of awards and honours
- 1955 Poetry Awards Incorporated prize (U.S.A.)[3]
- 1960 Landfall Readers' Award[3]
- 1972 Katherine Mansfield Short Story award[23]
- 1972 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship[24]
- 1984 Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to New Zealand literature[17]
- 1990 Queen's Medal[23]
- 1995 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[25]
- 2005 Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship[11]
- 2001 Honorary DLitt from the University of Bristol[26]
- 2007 Member of the Order of New Zealand[25]
- 2009 Montana Prize (for Collected Poems 1951–2006)[27]
- 2009 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[28]
- 2010 Sunday Times Short Story Award (UK) (for "Last Season's Man")[29]
- 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement[27]
- 2014 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize[30]
New Zealand Book Awards
- 1976 Quesada (Poetry)
- 1985 All Visitors Ashore (Fiction, shared with Marilyn Duckworth)
- 1995 The Singing Whakapapa (Fiction)
Selected works
- Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 (1964)
- The New Poetic (1964)
- Smith's Dream (1971)
- Crossing the Bar (1972)
- Quesada: Poems 1972–74 (1975)
- Measure for Measure (1977, editor)
- Walking Westward (1979)
- Five for the Symbol (1981)
- Geographies (1982)
- In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
- Poems of a Decade (1983)
- Paris: A poem (1984)
- All Visitors Ashore (1984)
- The Death of the Body (1986)
- Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
- Between (1988)
- Sister Hollywood (1989)
- Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
- Voices (1990)
- The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
- The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
- Villa Vittoria (1997)
- Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
- The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
- Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
- The Right Thing (2000)
- The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
- The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
- Dog (2002)
- Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
- Mansfield: a novel (2004)
- My Name Was Judas (2006)
- The Black River (2007)
- Book Self: Essays (2008)
- South West of Eden (A Memoir, 1932–1956, 2009)
- Ischaemia (winning poem of the 2010
- Risk (2012)
- In the Mirror, and Dancing (2017)
- The Necessary Angel (2018)
- You Have A Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986 (2020)
- What You Made of It: A Memoir 1987–2010 (2021)
See also
External links
- C.K. Stead at the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection archive
- C.K. Stead, profile on Read NZ website
- Interview with C.K. Stead for Cultural Icons project. Video and audio
- 1986 Profile of C.K. Stead on the Kaleidoscope television series
References
- ^ Horrocks, Roger (1976). Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems (Thesis). University of Auckland. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ ABC Radio National. 5 May 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "C.K. Stead". The Poetry Archive. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "Stead, C.K." Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d C.K. Stead at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b c d e Wroe, Nicholas (10 March 2007). "Writing in the dark". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ Stead, C.K. (18 December 1986). "War Book". London Review of Books. 8 (22). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- JSTOR 90015308. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ISBN 1869584287.
- ^ OCLC 865265749. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ a b "C.K. Stead awarded Michael King Fellowship". Scoop.co.nz. Creative New Zealand. 11 July 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ Alison Flood (26 March 2010). "CK Stead wins short story prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ Staff writer (26 March 2010). "New Zealand author Stead wins short story prize". BBC News. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ Hubbard, Anthony (11 April 2010). "Widow shocked by perceived attack on dead writer". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "Stead story attracts British barbs". Sunday Star Times. 18 April 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ a b Dudding, Adam (21 October 2018). "Grumpy resting face: inside the mind of CK Stead". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ a b "No. 49970". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1984. p. s.
- ^ "Special honours list". New Zealand Gazette (56): 1451. 24 May 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "CK Stead named as new NZ Poet Laureate". New Zealand Herald. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ^ "Last last — C.K.S signs off as laureate". www.poetlaureate.org.nz. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ "The making of: 'In the mirror, and dancing' | Blog | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ "In the mirror, and dancing | Blog | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ a b "C. K. Stead – ANZL Fellow". C. K. Stead. Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "List of fellows". Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. Creative NZ. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ a b "NZ Book Council profile". New Zealand Book Council. New Zealand Book Council. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Honorary graduates – 1995–2015". University of Bristol. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ a b "New Zealand poet laureate profile". New Zealand Poet Laureate. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- ^ Somerset, Guy. "A man for all seasons?". The Listener. Bauer Media Group. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ Green, Paula (18 May 2014). "The winner of The Sarah Broom Poetry Award has been announced". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
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- ISBN 978-0-9545495-5-8.