5-694: The Lilian Ida Smith Award also known as the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award is a New Zealand literary award from the New Zealand Society of Authors . The award is named after Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher from Whanganui . She granted the New Zealand Society of Authors funds to ‘assist people aged 35 yrs and over to embark upon or further a literary career’. From 1986–1990 the award consisted of three categories, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with each recipient awarded $ 1000. From 1992
10-603: The Ban Nadi Archeological project of the Otago University Department of Anthropology. Among its first members were Graham Lindsay , Hone Tuwhare (poet), Bill Dean (lecturer of English), Peter Olds (poet), Owen Marshall (writer) and Cilla McQueen (poet). The Canterbury Branch was established in Christchurch in 1984 under the leadership of Moisa, who had moved to the city from Dunedin. It met once
15-435: The award became biennial award with a prize fund of $ 3000 for a project in any genre, while after 2017 it was awarded every three years and from 2024 every four years. Between 1986 and 1990 recipients of the award were: From 1992 the recipients of the award are: New Zealand Society of Authors The New Zealand Society of Authors ( PEN New Zealand Inc. ) promotes and protects the interests of New Zealand writers. It
20-521: The leadership of writer and artist Christodoulos Moisa , who had moved to there from Auckland. He was helped by poet Graham Lindsay. Moisa had been nominated for membership by Auckland Star editor and writer David Ballantyne and Prof. Bernard Brown before he left Auckland to live in Dunedin. The branch used to meet once a month in the staffroom of the Hocken Building, where Moisa worked as an artist on
25-650: Was founded as the New Zealand PEN Centre (Poets, Essays and Novelists) in 1934. It broadened its scope and became the New Zealand Society of Authors in 1994, under the presidency of writer Philip Temple . There are eight branches covering all regions of New Zealand. Branches were established in Wellington and Auckland first, and later in Otago and Canterbury. The Otago Branch was established in Dunedin in 1982 under
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