Ben Brown (writer)
{{Short description|New Zealand children's author}}
Benjamin Brown{{Cite web |title=Brown, Benjamin, 1962- |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/36098910 |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=natlib.govt.nz}} (born 3 July 1962) is a New Zealand children's author and poet, and was the New Zealand Reading Ambassador (Te Awhi Rito) for 2021–2023.{{Cite web |title=Author Ben Brown is New Zealand's first Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador {{!}} Beehive.govt.nz |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/author-ben-brown-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-first-te-awhi-rito-reading-ambassador |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=www.beehive.govt.nz |language=en}}{{cite web | url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018796873/telling-stories-ben-brown-te-awhi-rito | title=Telling stories and the potency in being heard | website=Radio New Zealand | date=25 May 2021 }}{{Cite web |date=2021-06-14 |title=Ben Brown - Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust |url=https://www.storylines.org.nz/search-profiles/ben-brown/profiles/ |access-date=2022-11-22 |language=en-NZ}}
Biography
Brown was born in Motueka, New Zealand, on 3 July 1962.{{Cite web|url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-childrens-authors/ben-brown/|title=Interview with Ben Brown|website=my.christchurchcitylibraries.com}}
He started writing books for children in 1992.{{Cite web |date=2018-05-18 |title=Ben Brown |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ben-brown |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=The Poetry Foundation}} His book A Booming in the Night won the Best Picture Book Award at the 2006 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.{{Cite web |title=A Booming in the Night – New Zealand Picture Book Collection |url=https://www.picturebooks.co.nz/a-booming-in-the-night/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=www.picturebooks.co.nz}} Brown held a Michael King Writers’ Centre Māori Writer’s Residency in 2011 during which he wrote the poetry collection Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana.{{Cite journal |last=Miles |first=John |date=2 May 2018 |title=Book reviews: Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana by Ben Brown |url= |journal=Transnational Literature |volume=10 |issue=2 |via=Proquest}}
He lives in Lyttelton, New Zealand.{{Cite web |title=Ben Brown - Writer's Files • Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/brown-ben |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=www.read-nz.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Lyttelton: What makes an artist's town? |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/129708788/lyttelton-what-makes-an-artists-town |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}} In 2021 he was announced as the first New Zealand Reading Ambassador.{{Cite web |title=Ben Brown is New Zealand's first reading ambassador |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/124893677/ben-brown-is-new-zealands-first-reading-ambassador |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}} Brown's term ended in May 2023.{{Cite web |title=Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/collaborative-projects/new-zealand-reading-ambassador |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=natlib.govt.nz}} Brown was succeeded by Alan Dingley.{{Cite web |title=Community Scoop » Next National Reading Ambassador Named! |url=https://community.scoop.co.nz/2023/03/next-national-reading-ambassador-named/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |language=en}}
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Category:21st-century New Zealand poets
Category:New Zealand male poets
Category:21st-century New Zealand male writers
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