Elizabeth Caffin
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Elizabeth Palmer Caffin {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} is a writer, editor and publisher from New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/writers/elizabeth-caffin?code=C|title=Writer: Elizabeth Caffin - Writers • Auckland Writers Festival|website=www.writersfestival.co.nz|access-date=2018-04-20}}
Caffin began her publishing career with a position at Reed Publishing in 1976.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/04/ka_mate04_caffin.asp|title=Elizabeth Caffin - Poetry at Auckland University Press - ka mate ka ora - nzepc|website=www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz|access-date=2018-04-20}} She was later the director of Auckland University Press for more than ten years. She is a kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library, and has served on a number of arts bodies including the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the Press Council, the Literary Fund Advisory Council and Book Publishers Association of New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://books.scoop.co.nz/2008/04/16/former-winner-now-a-judge/#more-127|title=Scoop Review of Books » Former Winner Now a Judge|website=books.scoop.co.nz|language=en|access-date=2018-04-20}}
Publications
- Introducing Katherine Mansfield (1982), Longman Paul{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2306833|title=Introducing Katherine Mansfield|last=Caffin|first=Elizabeth|date=1982|publisher=Longman Paul|isbn=0582683750|series=Introducing New Zealand writers|location=Auckland, N.Z}}
- The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund (with Andrew Mason, 2016), Victoria University Press{{Cite news|url=https://www.takahe.org.nz/t87/reviews/elizabeth-caffin-and-andrew-mason-the-deepening-stream/|title=Elizabeth Caffin and Andrew Mason – The Deepening Stream|date=2016-08-09|work=takahē magazine|access-date=2018-04-20|language=en-NZ}}
- Allen Curnow: Collected Poems (with Terry Sturm, 2017), Auckland University Press{{Cite web|url=http://lucire.com/2017/1024ll0.shtml#uk23qcwKjYkBHPbs.97|title=Lucire: A grand tribute to Allen Curnow|website=lucire.com|access-date=2018-04-20}}
Recognition
In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Caffin was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10329221|title=Queen's birthday honours 2005: The full list of honoured New Zealanders|date=2005-06-05|work=NZ Herald|access-date=2018-04-20|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}} In 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auckland.{{cite web |url=https://www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz/en/university-personnel/honorary-graduates.html |title=Honorary graduates |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=8 August 2021}}
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Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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