C. K. Stead

C. K. Stead
Born	Christian Karlson Stead 17 October 1932 (1932-10-17) (age 79)
Nationality	New Zealand
Occupation	writer

Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region.

C. K. Stead was born in Auckland. For much of his career he was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, retiring in 1986 to write full-time. He received a CBE in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand in 2007.

Bibliography

• Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954-62 (1964)
• The New Poetic (1964)
• Smith's Dream (1971)
• Crossing the Bar (1972)
• Quesada: Poems 1972-74 (1975)
• Walking Westward (1979)
• Five for the Symbol (1981)
• Geographies (1982)
• In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
• Paris: A poem (1984)
• Poems of a Decade (1983)
• All Visitors Ashore (1984)
• The Death of the Body (1986)
• Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
• Between (1988)
• Sister Hollywood (1989)
• Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
• Voices (1990)
• The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
• The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
• Villa Vittoria (1997)
• Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
• The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
• Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
• The Right Thing (2000)
• The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
• The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
• Dog (2002)
• Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
• Mansfield: a novel (2004)
• My Name Was Judas (2006)
• The Black River (2007)
• South West of Eden (A Memoir, 1932-1956, 2009)
• Ischaemia (winning poem of the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine)^[1]

See also

Novels portal

1. ^ Stead, CK (2010). "Inaugural 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine: Open International 1st Prize". Postgraduate Medical Journal 87 (1023): 26–26. doi:10.1136/pgmj.2010.114199. ISSN 0032-5473. 

• [1] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval on The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 5 May 2008
• New Zealand literature

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