Wellington and Wairarapa
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Wellington and Wairarapa region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Pahiatua: Linda Burgess 1948, Nigel Cox 1951- 2006
Feilding: David Geary 1963, WH Oliver 1925, Norman Bilbrough 1941
Palmerston North: James Brown 1966, Meg Campbell 1937, John Reece Cole 1916-1984, Ian Richards 1958, Guthrie Wilson 1914
Foxton: Graeme Lay 1944
Levin: Joy Cowley 1936
Otaki: Vivienne Jepsen 1950
Porirua: Mike Riddell 1953
Masterton: Janet Slater Bottin 1940, Ian Cross 1925
Carterton: Barbara Ewing c.1945
Featherston: Bernard Beckett 1967, Ruth Gilbert 1917
Hutt Valley: Jenny Bornholdt 1960, Lindsay Charman-Love 1949, Catherine Chidgey 1970, Jan Hutchison 1932, Andrew Johnston 1963, Bob Jones 1939, Lloyd Jones 1955, Alan Loney 1940, Gary McCormick 1951, Chris Orsman 1955, Roma Potiki 1958, Apirana Taylor 1955, William Taylor 1938, Damien Wilkins 1963, Noel Virtue 1947, Phillip Wilson 1922-2001
Wellington: Rachel Barrowman 1963, JC Beaglehole 1901-1971, Elsdon Best 1856-1931, Riwia Brown 1957, Kate Camp 1972, Jane Campion 1954, Frances Cherry 1937, Geoff Cochrane 1951, Christine Cole Catley 1922, Jennifer Compton 1949, Kate Duignan 1974, Anne French 1956, James George 1962, Michael Gifkins 1945, Patricia Grace 1937, Kirsty Gunn 1960, Adrienne Jansen 1947, Louis Johnson 1924-1988, Sheridan Keith, Anne Kennedy 1959, Bob Kerr 1951, Michael King 1945-2004, Elizabeth Knox 1959, Pat Lawlor 1893-1979, Graham Lindsay 1952, Anna Livesey 1979, Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923, Bruce Mason 1921-82, Trixie Te Arama Menzies 1936, Barry Mitcalfe 1930-1986, David Mitchell 1940, Stephen Oliver 1950, Rebekah Palmer 1969, Jenny Pattrick 1936, Vernice Wineera Pere, Mark Pirie 1974, Hugh Price 1929, Beverley Randell 1931, Pat Quinn 1947, Laura Ranger 1984, Rosie Scott 1948, Judith White 1948
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Literary Locations
Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Book Council, Wellington Writers Walk [wellington walk], Katherine Mansfield Birthplace and Garden [Mansfield house], Randell Cottage
Literary Fellowships/Institutions
Wellington: Victoria University Writers Fellowship, International Institute of Modern Letters
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Literary Quotes
'In Plimmerton, in Plimmerton,
The little penguins play,
And one dead albatross was found
At Karehana Bay.'
Denis Glover 'Threnody'
'In less than an hour they'd be in Wellington ... Their first view of the city was of heavy sky dropped over the purple water of the harbour, the dark shapes of hills showing through it. There were smudges that were ships and sheds and unfinished buildings. The train slowed, laying back white smoke, sounding its whistle and creaking along the tracks past the dirty sheds, over oily, broken rock, to where the yards began. This was the end of the line.'
Patricia Grace Tu
'Then out of the tunnel and Wellington burst like a bomb. It opened like a flower, was lit up like a room, explained itself exactly, became the capital.'
Maurice Gee Going West (plaque on Wellington Writers Walk)
'Yet a day when you don't expect it,
sheer glitter ringing about
as if all the cutlery drawers of Kelburn
had been tipped out...'
Vincent O'Sullivan 'July, July'
'We were Aucklanders, some Otago and Taranaki boys, a few Cantabs and Wellingtonians: Stead was a lone Southlander, Corbett a sole West Coaster, and Hunter came out of a place near Wanganui with a Maori name in which every sound spoke of bush-creeping isolation. The larger sense of who we were hadn't yet forged itself. But in small telling ways, through gesture and anecdote, we revealed ourselves to one another.'
Lloyd Jones The Book of Fame
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