Anne Kennedy Explained

Anne Kennedy (born 1959 Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, and filmwriter.

Background

Educated in Wellington, Kennedy was a piano teacher and music librarian in her early years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington and taught at Trinity College London.^[1] In 2007 she completed a Master of Arts at Victoria University of Wellington, under the supervision of Lydia Wevers, titled Kicking round home: Atonality in the Bone People.^[2]

Career

Since 1986, she has been a freelance scriptwriter. Anne Kennedy published her first novel in 1988, and has since published six novels and books of poetry. Her most recent novel, The Last Days of the National Costume, was featured on the Listener's Top 100 Books of 2013, and on the Nielson 2013 Bestseller's list in New Zealand adult fiction.

In 2006, Kennedy was a visiting writer at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.^[1] She was a professor there for several years. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology. She was co-editor of literary journal Ika, and was co-editor of the online literary journal Trout^{[3] [4]} and co-edited the 2005 Best New Zealand Poems series.

Her work has appeared in Landfall, Sport, NZ Listener, Southerly (Australia), and JAAM, and she has co-edited several other works including the 2005 Best New Zealand Poems series.^[5]

In 2021 she received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.^[6]

Awards

• 1985 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award
• 1995 University of Auckland Literary Fellow
• 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards - Poetry category winner
• 2014 Fellowship for University of Auckland Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre
• 2014 Nigel Cox Unity Books Award
• 2021 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement

Works

Poetry

• The Sea Walks into a Wall, 2021
• Moth Hour, Auckland University Press, 2019
• "What Fell"; "Towards Fourteen Ways of Looking at Pohutukawa"; "Berlin", Poetry New Zealand
• "I am", Scottish Poetry Library
• Book: Sing song. Auckland University Press. 2003. 978-1-86940-295-2 .
• Book: The Time of the Giants. Auckland University Press . September 28, 2005. 978-1-86940-342-3 .

Novels

• The Last Days of the National Costume Allen & Unwin 2013
• Book: A Boy and His Uncle . Picador. 1998. 978-0-330-36057-9 .
• Book: Musica Ficta . University of Queensland Press. 1993. 978-0-7022-2457-7 .
• Book: 100 Traditional Smiles . Victoria University Press. 1988. 978-0-86473-077-0 .

Screenwriting

• The Monkey's Mask

Essay

• The Source of the Song (ed. Mark Williams, 1995)

Anthologies

• Book: The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Trans-Atlantic Pub. November 1996. 978-0-330-33996-4 .
• Book: The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories . Oxford University Press, USA . May 5, 1994. 978-0-19-558291-8 . 1st edition 1992
• Book: Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories . Bridget Williams. Victoria University Press. April 1, 2009. 978-0-86473-588-1 .
• Book: The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories . Susan Davis . Russell Haley . Russell Haley . Penguin Books. 1989. 0-14-011007-0 .
• Book: Goodbye to Romance . Allen and Unwin. 1989. 978-99901-629-3-6 .
• Book: Poetry New Zealand. Brick Row. 2004 . Alistair Paterson . Alistair Paterson . Anne Kennedy . James Norcliffe . Stephen Oliver.

External links

• "Anne Kennedy", Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
• "Anne Kennedy", The New Word
• "Kirsty Gunn introduces Anne Kennedy ", Scottish Poetry Library
• Allen & Unwin - Author Display

Notes and References

1. Web site: :: Tradewinds -- Department of English -- University of Hawaii at Manoa :: . 2009-09-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090918012033/http://www.english.hawaii.edu/tradewinds/1_2/kennedy_article.html . 2009-09-18.
2. Kicking Round Home: Atonality in the Bone People . Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington . 2007-01-01 . 10.26686/wgtn.16985098 . Anne . Kennedy. free .
3. Web site: TROUT - SUBMISSIONS (Page 1). www.trout.auckland.ac.nz. Apr 11, 2021.
4. Web site: The Scottish Poetry Library . 2009-09-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183945/http://www.spl.org.uk/new_zealand/kennedy.htm . 2009-10-09.
5. Web site: Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive: Kennedy, Anne. Dr Jack. Ross. Nov 21, 2007. Apr 11, 2021.
6. News: Authors honoured with Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement . 4 November 2021 . Stuff.co.nz . 4 November 2021.