Northland and Auckland
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Northland and Auckland region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Kaitaia: Kelly Ana Morey 1968,
Waimate North: Mary Scott 1888-1979
Motukaraka: Rawiri Paratene
Rawene: Robyn Bargh 1953
Moerewa: Rena Owen
Kaikohe: Hone Tuwhare 1922
Whangarei: Jean Watson 1933
Dargaville: Amelia Batistich 1915-2004, Daphne Clair de Jong 1939
Te Kopuru: Kendrick Smithyman 1922-1995
Warkworth: Bronwyn Tate 1959
Helensville: Peter Cape 1926-1979
Waiheke Island: Paola Bilbrough 1971
Auckland: Fleur Adcock 1934, Pamela Allen 1934, David Ballantyne 1924-1986, Jennifer Beck 1939, James Bertram 1910-1993, Tony Beyer 1948, Bruce Biggs 1921-2000, Hector Bolitho 1898-1974, Diane Brown 1951, Dorothy Butler 1925, Ken Catran 1944, Janet Charman 1954, Glenn Colquhoun 1964, James Cowan 1870-1943, Barry Crump 1935-1996, Harry Dansey 1920-1979, Geoffrey de Montalk 1903-1997, Marilyn Duckworth 1935, Tessa Duder 1940, Maurice Duggan 1922-1974, Cathie Dunsford 1953, David Eggleton 1952, ARD Fairburn 1904-1957, Roderick Finlayson 1904-1992, Beryl Fletcher 1938, Paula Green 1955, Lisa Greenwood 1955, Charlotte Grimshaw 1966, Sam Hunt 1946, Kevin Ireland 1933, Anna Jackson 1967, Stephanie Johnson 1961, RAK Mason 1905-1971, David McGill 1942, James McNeish 1931, Paula Morris 1965, Michael Morrissey 1942, Elizabeth Nannestad 1956, Michael O'Leary 1950, Margaret Orbell 1934, Vincent O'Sullivan 1937, Blackwood Paul 1908-1965, Ruth Park 1917, Janet Paul 1919-2004, Joanna Paul 1945-2003, Isabel Peacocke 1881-1973, Jo Randerson 1973, AW Reed 1908-1979, Bryan Reid 1926, Ron Riddell 1949, Jack Ross 1962, Maurice Shadbolt 1932-2004, Tina Shaw 1961, Keith Sinclair 1922-1993, Stephen Sinclair 1956, Laura Solomon 1974, CK Stead 1932, Terry Sturm 1941, Robert Sullivan 1967, Margaret Sutherland 1941, Chad Taylor 1964, Hugh Walpole 1884-1941, Peter Wells 1953, Joyce West 1908-1985, Sonja Yelich 1965
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Literary Locations
Northland: AH Reed Memorial Kauri Park
Auckland: Frank Sargeson Centre, Montana Wines - Sponsors, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Writers Walk [Auckland walk]
North Shore: Bruce Mason Centre, Frank Sargeson House
Literary Fellowships/Institutions
Auckland: Auckland University Writers Fellowship, Buddle Findlay/Sargeson Writers Fellowship
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Literary Quotes
'At that place I call the-bend-in-the-road
I heard the sound of people singing.
Their voices were like smoke rising out of houses.
The wind whistled softly through his teeth.
I found verses everywhere.'
Glenn Colquhoun from The Art of Walking Upright
'I am Maria McClure. I was born at Waipu, a coastal village in the northern part of New Zealand, in 1878, twelve years after the Man died. The birth took place in this same old house that I live in now, a board house of two storeys, near the river arm that comes in from the sea.'
Fiona Kidman from The Book of Secrets
'Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart...'
Rudyard Kipling on Auckland, 1891
'Day's violence continues
Eternally the fragile surf
is shattered on this iron beach.'
Kevin Ireland 'Summer Evening: Piha'
'And there again was the Auckland light, not forgotten, like mountain light in a city without mountains, yet softer, full of currents of buoyant blue and purple and grey, and, moving, one waded effortlessly through the light.'
Janet Frame The Envoy From Mirror City
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