Elizabeth Caffin
NZ writer, author and publisher
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Elizabeth Palmer Caffin MNZM is a writer, editor and publisher from New Zealand.[1]
Caffin began her publishing career with a position at Reed Publishing in 1976.[2] She was later the director of Auckland University Press for more than ten years. She is a kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library, and has served on a number of arts bodies including the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the Press Council, the Literary Fund Advisory Council and Book Publishers Association of New Zealand.[3]
Publications
- Introducing Katherine Mansfield (1982), Longman Paul[4]
- The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund (with Andrew Mason, 2016), Victoria University Press[5]
- Allen Curnow: Collected Poems (with Terry Sturm, 2017), Auckland University Press[6]
Recognition
In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Caffin was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.[7] In 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auckland.[8]
