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Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture
The beach at Stresa, the ‘Wheatsheaf’ in Soho
The 11th
Annual
Professor Vincent O’Sullivan
In the1950s and ‘60s, Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin, his junior by ten years, were the best known living New Zealand
fiction writers. They liked each other, and guardedly admired each other’s work. This lecture considers some of the
currents, and cross-currents, of that friendship.
Emeritus Professor Vincent O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand’s
most important writers. His novel Let the River Stand won the
Montana Book Award for 1994 and he held the Katherine Mansfield
Memorial Fellowship in Menton the same year. In 2006 he was
awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for literary achievement, and
he was named Poet Laureate in 2013. Prof. O’Sullivan has taught
English at the University of Waikato and at Victoria University.
DATE
TIME
VENUE Wednesday 30 October, 2013 - Free community event, all welcome!
Lecture begins at 5.30pm. Light refreshments to follow, from 6.30pm
SG.02, University of Waikato
Co-hosted
by the The Friends of Hamilton Public Library Association.www.waikato.ac.nz