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name |
Glenn Colquhoun |
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born |
1964; Papakura, Auckland |
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died |
still living |
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Poet |
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Glenn Colquhoun is a doctor, poet and children's writer. He lives on the Kapiti coast with his daughter.
Biography[]
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Glenn Colquhoun is of Scottish, Welsh and German descent and had a largely Pakeha upbringing in South Auckland. He says, "I looked over the fence at things Polynesian and Maori. I recognised lots of sights and sounds and patterns but not what they meant."[1]
Works[]
This section is incomplete
Awards and Honours[]
- 2000: Montana New Zealand Book Awards Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry for The Art of Walking Upright[2]
- 2003: Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and Reader's Choice for Playing God[2]
- 2004: Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters[3]
- 2006: New Zealand Booksellers Platinum Award for selling 5000 copies of Playing God[2]
See also[]
- Writers in Schools
- Allen Curnow
References[]
- ↑ Colquhoun, Glenn. The Art of Walking Upright. Wellington: Steele Roberts. (1999).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/colquhoun.html
- ↑ http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/about/history/prizes