Christian Karlson Stead

CK Stead, 2011

Christian Karlson Stead ONZ (born October 17, 1932 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand writer, literary scholar and editor.

Life

Stead studied at the University of Auckland ( MA 1955) and received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1961 . He then taught at the University of Auckland, where he was full professor of literature from 1968. In 1986 he retired and concentrated on his writing.

Honors

• Member of the Order of New Zealand (2007).
• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (2009)
• International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for "Ischaemia" (2010)

Works (selection)

• Smith's dream (1971; filmed as Sleeping dogs - Sleeping Dogs )
• Crossing the bar (1972)
• In the glass case (1981)
• Five for the symbol (1981)
• Geographies (1982)
• All visitors ashore (1984)
• The death of the body (1986).
  • German by Silvia Morawetz : The death of the body , novel. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11869-7 .
• The new poetic (1964, revised 1987)
• Between (1988)
• Sister Hollywood (1989)
• The blind blonde with candles in her hair (1998)
• Dog (2002)
• My name was Judas (2006)
• The Black River (2007)
• South West of Eden (A Memoir, 1932-1956, 2009)
• Ischaemia (2010 award-winning poem of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine)

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Karlson Stead in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entries at worldcat.org
• Christian Karlson Stead . In: NZETC . Victoria University of Wellington,accessed April 3, 2018. 

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Zealand Honors - The Order of New Zealand (Instituted 1987) . Department of the Primeminister and Cabinet , June 2, 2008, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).