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Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ
Order of New Zealand

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, CBE
Order of the British Empire

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 (born October 17 1932) is a New Zealand
New Zealand

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 writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill
Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of British Empire is a New Zealand actor.He has had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin , the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin...
; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region.

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Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ
Order of New Zealand

The Order of New Zealand is the highest honour in New Zealand's Orders, decorations, and medals of New Zealand, created "to recognise outstanding service to the Crown and people of New Zealand in a civil or military capacity"....
, CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born October 17 1932) is a New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill
Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of British Empire is a New Zealand actor.He has had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin , the executive officer, Capt 2nd Class Vasily Borodin...
; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region.

C. K. Stead was born in Auckland
Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....
. For much of his career he was Professor of English at the University of Auckland
University of Auckland

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, retiring in 1986 to write full-time. He received a CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand
Order of New Zealand

The Order of New Zealand is the highest honour in New Zealand's Orders, decorations, and medals of New Zealand, created "to recognise outstanding service to the Crown and people of New Zealand in a civil or military capacity"....
 in 2007.

Bibliography

  • Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954-62 (1964)
  • The New Poetic (1964)
  • Smith's Dream (1971)
  • Crossing the Bar (1972)
  • Quesada: Poems 1972-74 (1975)
  • Walking Westward (1979)
  • Five for the Symbol (1981)
  • Geographies (1982)
  • In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
  • Paris: A poem (1984)
  • Poems of a Decade (1983)
  • All Visitors Ashore (1984)
  • The Death of the Body (1986)
  • Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
  • Between (1988)
  • Sister Hollywood (1989)
  • Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
  • Voices (1990)
  • The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
  • The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
  • Villa Vittoria (1997)
  • Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
  • The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
  • Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
  • The Right Thing (2000)
  • The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
  • The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
  • Dog (2002)
  • Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
  • Mansfield: a novel (2004)
  • My Name Was Judas (2006)
  • The Black River (2007)


See also

  • Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval
    Ramona Koval

    Ramona Koval is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.Koval is known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers....
     on The Book Show
    The Book Show

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    , ABC Radio National, 5 May 2008
  • New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature

    New Zealand claims as its own many writers, even those immigrants born overseas, like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into exile but wrote about New Zealand, like Dan Davin and Katherine Mansfield....