Dick Seddon's Great Dive and Other Stories (Thw Classics) - Softcover

Wedde, Ian

9781776920204: Dick Seddon's Great Dive and Other Stories (Thw Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1776920201 ISBN 13: 9781776920204

Verlag: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023

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First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding’ s literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon’ s Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981.Dick Seddon’ s Great Dive traces the story of a love affair through 1970s New Zealand counterculture, traveling between the poles of Bethells Beach and Port Chalmers. Parties and drugs fill daily life, while the land’ s true history and the dispossession of its original owners press the story to its tragic conclusion.

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Ian is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011– 13 Wedde was New Zealand’ s poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers’ Residency in Berlin 2013– 14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister’ s Award for Literary Achievement (poetry).

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