Anne Kennedy
{{Short description|New Zealand writer}}
{{For|those of a similar name|Ann Kennedy (disambiguation)}}
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.english.hawaii.edu/tradewinds/1_2/kennedy_article.html |title=:: Tradewinds -- Department of English -- University of Hawaii at Manoa :: |accessdate=2009-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918012033/http://www.english.hawaii.edu/tradewinds/1_2/kennedy_article.html |archivedate=2009-09-18}} 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.{{Cite thesis |title=Kicking Round Home: Atonality in the Bone People |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Kicking_Round_Home_Atonality_in_the_Bone_People/16985098/1 |publisher=Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington |date=2007-01-01 |doi=10.26686/wgtn.16985098 |first=Anne |last=Kennedy|doi-access=free }}
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. 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
{{Cite web|url=http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/about.htm|title=TROUT - SUBMISSIONS (Page 1)|website=www.trout.auckland.ac.nz|accessdate=Apr 11, 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.spl.org.uk/new_zealand/kennedy.htm |title=The Scottish Poetry Library |accessdate=2009-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183945/http://www.spl.org.uk/new_zealand/kennedy.htm |archivedate=2009-10-09}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://aonzpsa.blogspot.com/2007/11/kennedy-anne.html|title=Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive: Kennedy, Anne|first=Dr Jack|last=Ross|date=Nov 21, 2007|accessdate=Apr 11, 2021}}
In 2021 she received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.{{cite news |title=Authors honoured with Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/126859492/authors-honoured-with-prime-ministers-awards-for-literary-achievement |access-date=4 November 2021 |work=Stuff.co.nz |date=4 November 2021}}
Awards
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- 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 {{ISBN|9781869409586}}
- Moth Hour, Auckland University Press, 2019 {{ISBN|9781869408947|}}
- [http://www.poetrynz.net/archives/issue-28/ "What Fell"; "Towards Fourteen Ways of Looking at Pohutukawa"; "Berlin", Poetry New Zealand]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183945/http://www.spl.org.uk/new_zealand/kennedy.htm#poem#poem "I am", Scottish Poetry Library]
- {{cite book| title=Sing song| publisher=Auckland University Press| year=2003| isbn=978-1-86940-295-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Time of the Giants| publisher=Auckland University Press | date=September 28, 2005| isbn=978-1-86940-342-3 }}
=Novels=
- {{cite book|title=100 Traditional Smiles|publisher=Victoria University Press|year=1988|isbn=978-0-86473-077-0}}
- {{cite book|title=Musica Ficta|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=1993|isbn=978-0-7022-2457-7}}
- {{cite book|title=A Boy and His Uncle|publisher=Picador|year=1998|isbn=978-0-330-36057-9}}
- {{cite book|title=The Last Days of the National Costume|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2013}}
- {{cite book|title=The Ice Shelf|location=Wellington|publisher=Victoria University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-1-77656-201-5}}
=Screenwriting=
=Essay=
- The Source of the Song (ed. Mark Williams, 1995)
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction| publisher=Trans-Atlantic Pub| date=November 1996| isbn=978-0-330-33996-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA | date=May 5, 1994| isbn=978-0-19-558291-8 }} 1st edition 1992
- {{cite book| title=Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories | editor=Bridget Williams| publisher=Victoria University Press| date=April 1, 2009| isbn=978-0-86473-588-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories |editor=Susan Davis |editor2=Russell Haley |editor2-link=Russell Haley | publisher=Penguin Books| year=1989| isbn=0-14-011007-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=Goodbye to Romance | publisher=Allen and Unwin| year=1989| isbn=978-99901-629-3-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=Poetry New Zealand| publisher=Brick Row| year=2004 |author=Alistair Paterson |author-link=Alistair Paterson |author2=Anne Kennedy |author3=James Norcliffe |author4=Stephen Oliver}}
References
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External links
- [https://read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/kennedy-anne "Anne Kennedy", Read NZ Te Pou Muramura]
- [http://www.thenewword.com/poetry/akennedy.html "Anne Kennedy", The New Word]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183945/http://www.spl.org.uk/new_zealand/kennedy.htm "Kirsty Gunn introduces Anne Kennedy ", Scottish Poetry Library]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150518130640/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=1253 Allen & Unwin - Author Display]
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