Marilyn Duckworth

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Marilyn Duckworth OBE (born 10 November 1935) is a New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published 16 novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio.

Early life[]

Duckworth was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in England. Her father was the psychologist and Esperantist , and her sister is the poet Fleur Adcock.

Career[]

Duckworth's first novel, A Gap in the Spectrum, was published when she was 23.

Her debut in 1959 puts her in the second generation of New Zealand novelists of the Provincial period.[1]

Honours, awards and nominations[]

  • 1963: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement for A Barbarous Tongue
  • 1985: New Zealand Book Award:Fiction for Disorderly Conduct
  • 1095: Wattie Book of the Year Award (shortlisted) for Disorderly Conduct
  • 1987: Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature, in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours[2]
  • 1996: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (shortlisted) for Leather Wings
  • 2011–2012: President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors NZSA/PEN NZ
  • 2016: Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement - Fiction [3]

Fellowships and grants[]

  • Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters (1961 and 1972)
  • Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, Menton, France (1980)
  • Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship, United States (1987)
  • Australia New Zealand Writers' Exchange Fellowship (1989)
  • Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship (1990)
  • Arts Council NZ Scholarship in Letters (1993)
  • Hawthornden Writing fellowship, Scotland (1994)
  • Sargeson Writing Fellowship, Auckland (1995)
  • Auckland University Literary Fellowship (1996)
  • Ucross Foundation Residency, Wyoming United States (1997)
  • Millay Arts Centre Residency, New York State United States (2001)

Selected works[]

  • A Gap in the Spectrum (1959)
  • The Matchbox House (1960)
  • A Barbarous Tongue (1963)
  • Over the Fence Is Out (1969).
  • Other Lovers' Children: Poems 1958–74 (1975)
  • Disorderly Conduct (1984)
  • Married Alive (1985)
  • Rest for the Wicked (1986)
  • Pulling Faces (1987)
  • A Message from Harpo (1989)
  • Explosions in the Sun (1989), a volume of short stories
  • Unlawful Entry (1992)
  • Seeing Red (1993)
  • Fooling (1994), a novella
  • Leather Wings (1995)
  • Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About Their Sisters (1996 ) (editor)
  • Studmuffin (1997)
  • Camping on the Faultline (2000), a memoir
  • Swallowing Diamonds (2003)
  • Playing Friends (2007)
  • The Chiming Blue: New and Selected Poems (VUP, 2017)

Plays broadcast on radio[]

  • Feet First (Radio New Zealand) (1981)
  • Home to Mother (Radio New Zealand) (1976)
  • A Gap in the Spectrum (Radio New Zealand) (1972)
  • A Barbarous Tongue (Radio New Zealand) (adaptation of own work for Radio New Zealand) (1973)

Television scripts[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sturm 1998, p. 154.
  2. ^ "No. 50950". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 13 June 1987. p. 32.
  3. ^ Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

Further reading[]

  • The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson & Nelson Wattie pp. 147–148 (1998, Oxford University Press, Auckland). ISBN 0-19-558348-5
  • The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, edited by Terry Sturm (1991, 1998; Oxford University Press, Auckland). ISBN 0-19-558211-X

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