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[Author name] is a writer of [fiction and non-fiction for adults and children] [novelist, short story writer and creative writing teacher] . Several of her books have been shortlisted for or won awards, including [names]. Her work, often focusing on themes of [eg history, peace and war], has won numerous prizes and awards.She herself has been recognised with the prestigious Storylines Margaret Mahy Award and the [eg Ignition Children’s Book Festival Award]. She has also been the recipient of a writing residency at [eg the University of Otago]. She lives in [place], New Zealand.
Biography[edit]
[Author name] was born on [date] in [place] and grew up in [place].
She lists/cites some of her favourite childhood reading as ...
She was educated at [ School], and studied [subject] at the [University], graduating with [degree].
She worked as a [role] before becoming a full-time writer in [date] and has written more than [number] books for trade and educational publishers.
Several of her books have been shortlisted for or have won awards. She has also had work published in the School Journal and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. She has appeared at a number of festivals and literary events including [names and dates].
Her writing includes list] [eg] scientific papers, articles for Te Ara, non-fiction history texts, novels for children and young adults and short stories in anthologies such as [titles and publishers ] the Annual (Gecko Press, 2016). and often carries underlying themes of [eg] the natural environment, New Zealand history, flora and fauna and Maori folklore and heritage.
Several of her children’s books have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults or named as Storylines Notable Books. Her novels [title] were among the books mentioned by Tessa Duder in an article on the history of children's literature in New Zealand.[1] [Title] was shortlisted for the New Zealand Heritage Book and Writing Awards.
With a group of other writers, she runs an online writing initiative for children called FABO Story and she visits schools as part of the New Zealand Book Council Writers in Schools programme.
She is married with [number of] children and lives in [place]
Awards and Prizes [edit]
In [year], [name] was the University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence.[2]
{title] won the Children's Book of the Year Award in [year].[3] [Title] won the Senior Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in [year].[4][5]
[Name] was awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal in [date] and delivered her speech titled "".
In the [Honours], [name] was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to children's literature.
Bibliography [edit]
Adult non-fiction
Adult fiction
Children’s and Young Adult fiction
See also[edit]
- List of New Zealand literary awards
- List of New Zealand writers
- List of New Zealand poets
- List of New Zealand women writers
- Best New Zealand Poems
- Storylines Notable Books List
External links[edit]
- Author website
- Profile of [author] on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura website
- Profile of [author] on Storylines website
Gallery[edit]
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Residence of Judge Halswell in Brooklyn, then known as Ohiro District (1847) -
Mrs Jane Symons' farm, on approximately the modern site of Brooklyn School, between 1852 and 1856 -
Helen Street, Brooklyn, circa 1910 -
Polhill anti-aircraft gun batteries, Brooklyn, Wellington -
Building on corner of Todman St and Ohiro Rd, Brooklyn -
Wellington Korean Church: 184 Ohiro Road, Brooklyn, Wellington
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Marilyn Duckworth, (1935 - ) writer[6]
On a number of occasions, buses have become stuck on the narrow corners of Brooklyn roads.[7][8][9][10]
Politics[edit]
| 2020 General election party vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Māngere[11] | Tāmaki Makaurau[12] | New Zealand[13] | |||
| Suburb | Electorate | Suburb | Electorate | |||
| ACT | 5.62% | 1.55% | 1.07% | 1.08% | 7.58% | |
| Green | 8.32% | 3.99% | 12.15% | 10.65% | 7.86% | |
| Labour | 56.91% | 77.37% | 63.11% | 61.09% | 50.01% | |
| Māori | 0.92% | 0.90% | 10.23% | 12.93% | 1.17% | |
| National | 20.38% | 9.11% | 3.20% | 3.16% | 25.58% | |
| NZ First | 3.67% | 2.76% | 5.76% | 4.28% | 2.60% | |
Brooklyn is within the Wellington City Council's Paekawakawa/Southern General Ward and is currently represented on the Council by two councillors: Laurie Foon and Nureddin Abdurahman.
Brooklyn is located within the Wellinton Central general and Tāmaki Makaurau Māori parliamentary electorates. Since the 2008 New Zealand general election, the Māngere electorate has been represented by Aupito William Sio,[14] while Peeni Henare has been the Member of Parliament for Tāmaki Makaurau since 2014.[15] In the 2014 New Zealand general election, the voters of the suburb narrowly preferred the New Zealand National Party,[16] despite the electorate overall voting strongly for the Labour Party.[17] Māngere Bridge voters gave a relative majority to the Labour Party in 2017.[16] Among Māngere Bridge polling stations in 2017 and 2020, support for the New Zealand National Party and Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand was higher compared to the overall average for the Māngere electorate.[11][18]
Ronda Armitage is a children's writer, teacher and counsellor. She lives in England.
Biography[edit]
Ronda Armitage was born in Kaikoura, New Zealand, on 11 March 1943.[19]
She worked as a teacher and is a trained counsellor, but is best known for her many children's books, including the Lighthouse Keeper series, inspired by the Beachy Head lighthouse[20].
She moved to England in 1974 with her husband David Armitage[21] and two children [20][22] and now lives in East Sussex.[19] David Armitage has illustrated many of her books.[23]
Awards and Prizes [edit]
Ronda Armitage's first book (and the first in the Lighthouse Keeper series), The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, won the 1978 Esther Glen Award. This title was also named in the booklist for Fifty Favourite Books From The Last Fifty Years by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups.[24]
In 2013, she won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award for A Very Strange Creature.[25]
Bibliography [edit]
The Lighthouse Keeper series
The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch (1977)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe (1986)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Rescue (1989)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Picnic (1993)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Cat (1995)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Favourite Stories (1999)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Breakfast (2000)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Tea (2001)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas (2002)
The Lighthouse Keeper's New Friend (2007)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Surprise (2009)
The Lighthouse Keeper's Mystery (2020)
Children's fiction
The Trouble with Mr. Harris (1978)
Don't Forget Matilda! (1979)
The Birthday Spell (1980)
The Bossing of Josie (1980)
Ice Creams for Rosie (1981)
One Moonlit Night (1983)
Grandma Goes Shopping (1984)
When Dad Did the Washing Up (1990)
Watch the Baby, Daisy (1991)
A Quarrel of Koalas (1992)
Looking after Chocolates (1992)
Queen of the Night (1999)
Small Knight and George (2007)
A New Home for a Pirate (2007)
Small Knight and George and the Royal Chocolate Cake (2008)
The Bungle Jungle Bedtime Kiss (2008)
A Very Strange Creature (2009)
Small Knight and George and the Pirates (2012)
Wave the Flag and Blow the Whistle (2012)
A Mighty Bitey Creature (2017)
Children's non fiction
New Zealand (1988)
External links[edit]
- Profile of Ronda Armitage on British Council website
- Profile of
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- "All my life" by Sarah Broom: Tuesday poem 18 December 2012
- Scottish Poetry Library podcast interview with Sarah Broom, November 2011.
References[edit]
- ^ Duder, Tessa (5 December 2017). "The golden age of children's writing in New Zealand is now". The Spinoff. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Otago Fellows". University of Otago. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Pollock, Kerryn (9 August 2016). "Book of the year winners, 1982 to 2017". Te Ara the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Past Winners: 2002". NZ Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – Young Adult Fiction Award". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Duckworth, Marilyn (2000). Camping on the faultline: a memoir. Auckland: Vintage. pp. 246–248. ISBN 1869414136.
- ^ McCallum, Hanna (30 March 2023). "How did I get here? The stuck trucks and buses on Wellington's tight roads". Stuff. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ Hunt, Tom (7 September 2016). "Stuck bus a six-monthly affair for bemused Brooklyn, Wellington residents". Stuff. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Wrong turn leads to stuck bus in Wellington". Stuff. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ Chapman, Katie (4 December 2009). "A funny thing happened on the way up Fortunatus St". Stuff. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Māngere 21 party vote details". Electoral Commission. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Tāmaki Makaurau 68 party vote details". Electoral Commission. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "2020 General election – official results and statistics". Electoral Commission. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Māngere: Electoral Profile". New Zealand Parliament. 30 September 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Tāmaki Makaurau – electorate profile". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ a b Williamson, Jarred (27 October 2017). "Battleground Booths: Māngere Bridge goes to Labour in 2017, National's vote still up". Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Votes for Registered Parties by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Māngere 23 party vote details". Electoral Commission. 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Authors: Ronda Armitage". Hachette Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ a b D’Entremont, Jeremy (20 August 2022). "Light Hearted ep 187 – Ronda & David Armitage, "The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch"". US Lighthouse Society News. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Biography". The Paintings of David Armitage. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "About me". Ronda Armitage. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "Ronda Armitage". British Council: Literature. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ "Booklists". The Federation of Children's Book Groups.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2013". Carousel: the guide to children's books. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2022.