Gregory O'Brien
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Gregory O’Brien (born 1961 in Matamata New Zealand), is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
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Life
He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckland.[1]
His work has appeared in Islands, Landfall and Sport, Meanjin, Scripsi. He lives in Wellington where he is Senior Curator at the City Gallery Wellington.
Awards and honours
- 1988 Sargeson Fellowship
- 1995 Victoria University writing fellow
- 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- 2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[2]
Works
- "Rocks, Te Namu Pa, Taranaki"; "Untitled"; "Beausoleil", "European", Shearsman 59
- "Printmaking Studio of John Drawbridge, Island Bay, Wellington", Shearsman 67/68
- "Wet Jacket Arm", Jacket 35, Early 2008
- Location of the Least Person (opening with the ‘Old Man South Road’ sequence), was published in Auckland in 1987
- Dunes and Barns (1988)
- Man with a Child’s Violin (1990)
- Great Lake (Sydney, 1991)
- Malachi, a charming verse novella (Adelaide, 1993)
- Days Beside Water, Auckland in 1993
- Winter I Was (Victoria University Press, 1999)
- Afternoon of an Evening Train (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005)
Novel
- Diesel Mystic (1989),
Anthologies
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Criticism
- After Bathing At Baxter's, Victoria University Press, 2002.
- News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2007)
Editor
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References
- ↑ http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/obriengreg.html
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