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New Zealand poet
French in 1993
Anne French (born 1956) is a
New Zealand editor and poet.
Life
French was born in
Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated from
Wellington Girls' College and
Victoria University of Wellington with an MA. She worked as an editor for
Oxford University Press, becoming New Zealand Managing Editor in 1982, and subsequently New Zealand Publisher. In 1995 she set up Te Papa Press, a publishing business within the Commercial Division of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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Awards
- 1973 and 1974 PEN Young Writer’s Incentive Award
- 1988 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- 1988 PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award
1993 Inaugural Writer in Residence, Massey University
Works
Contributor
Anthologies
- Roger Robinson; Nelson Wattie, eds. (1998). Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-558348-9.
- Jack Ross; Jan Kemp, eds. (2007). Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
ISBN
978-1-86940-395-9.
References
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