- Steve Braunias
Steve Braunias (born 1964) is an award-winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor.
In 2006 he won Best Newspaper Feature Writer, Best Arts Feature and the Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas (Print) Media [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0605/S00059.htm] .
Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading "
Roy of the Rovers ", a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters' names. Having bought a typewriter at the age of 18, he established himself as a journalist--once making the front page of the "Greymouth Evening " for his article on a fallen power pole that caused a city-wide power cut [http://cclblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/steve-braunias-and-his-roosters/] .He is perhaps best known for his former column, the weekly page 94 in the "
New Zealand Listener ". He once wrote a whole page sarcastically about another magazine that had made a one-letter error. He was fired from the Listener in 2005 and won a constructive dismissal case against editor Pamela Stirling [http://www.critic.co.nz/about/features/129] .Braunias currently reports and writes a regular column for the "
Sunday Star Times ".Works
Non-fiction books
*"Fish of the Week" (2008,
Awa Press )
*"Roosters I Have Known" (2008,Awa Press )
*"How to Watch a Bird" (2007,Awa Press )
*"Fool's Paradise" (won the 2002 New Zealand Society of Authors' "E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction" at theMontana New Zealand Book Awards )Television Writing
"
The Unauthorised History of New Zealand "
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