Diane Brown
New Zealand novelist and poet
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Diane Edith Brown MNZM (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.
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Diane Brown | |
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Brown in 2013 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 74–75) |
| Writing career | |
| Notable awards | Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
| Website | Official homepage |
Background
Career
Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including:
- Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland (1997, Tandem Press), poetry
- Learning to Lie Together (2004, Godwit), poetry
- If The Tongue Fits (1999, Tandem Press), novel
- Eight Stages of Grace (2002, Random House), novel
- Every Now and Then I Have a Child (2020), Otago University Press), verse novel
She is also the author of the memoirs Liars and Lovers (2004),[2] Here Comes Another Vital Moment (2006),[3] and Taking My Mother To The Opera (2015).[4]
Poetry by Brown has appeared in literary journals including Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, and New Zealand Listener.[1]
Brown currently runs the creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin.[5]
Awards
In the 2013 New Year Honours, Brown was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in recognition of services as a writer and educator.[6]
Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland won the 1997 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[7] Eight Stages of Grace was a finalist in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[8]
Brown was the inaugural fellow at the Michael King Writer's Studio.[1] In 1997 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with Shonagh Koea.[9] She was also awarded the 2013 Beatson Fellowship from Creative New Zealand[10] and in 2012 won the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award.[11]
