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
Literary Locations
Northland
AH Reed Memorial Kauri Park
Auckland
Frank Sargeson Centre
Montana Wines - Sponsors, Montana New Zealand Book Awards
North Shore
Bruce Mason Centre
Frank Sargeson House
Literary walks
Literary Fellowships/Institutions
Auckland
Auckland University Writers Fellowship
Buddle Findlay/Sargeson Writers Fellowship
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
